Broadcom BCM4311 / Dell Wireless 1490

[steveredshaw]

I am testing ubuntu 12.10 from USB drive on my Dell D630. It does not recognise my wireless connection (though this does work under Windows XP). I can get an internet connection through the wired connection to the router under Ubuntu.

I have read a previous forum topic on this, however it referred to a previous version of Ubuntu and suggested bringing up the hardware driver settings, I cannot find out how to do this on 12.10

The wireless card is a Dell Wireless 1490 Dual Band WLAN,

any help, advice greatly appreciated...

[ajgreeny]

Dell Wireless 1490 Dual Band WLAN is not really much help. We need to see the output of lspci in terminal to know which chipset that is.

[Hadaka]

Hi, please open a terminal ctrl/alt/t
then COPY and paste the following..

lspci -nn | egrep '0200|0280'
lsmod egrep 'wl|b43|bcma|ndis'

post the results
thanks.

[steveredshaw]

thanks, output from these terminal commands;

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lspci -nn | egrep '0200|0280'
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5755M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1673] (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4312] (rev 01)
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lsmod egrep 'wl|b43|bcma|ndis'
Usage: lsmod

[Hadaka]

Hi, please do..

sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree
sudo modprobe b43

keep in mind, since you are using usb/try ubuntu
when you boot, these settings will go away.
but, this should allow you to test your wifi.
thanks.

[steveredshaw]

thanks, but

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package linux-firmware-nonfree

[Hadaka]

Hi were you connected to the internet via a wired connection?
if no, from a wired connection,using ubuntu, repeat those commands.
thanks.

[steveredshaw]

yes, connected by wire, I have repeated the commands, definitely connected to internet, but same result, have also done sudo apt-get update, but no further on...

[steveredshaw]

this thread has a downloadable file, presumably the driver/firmware, which again, presumably is what I am missing, is there an alternative way to get the files I need?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2011756

[gorkypah]

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