WiFi Dell Studio 1535

[rifazmohamme]

I recently bought a new dell studio 1535
when i installed ubuntu 8.04, wireless is not working, even while installation da wireless was not detected.in network settings i could see only wired connection settings.but whn i installed da same in my friends dell inspiron 1420 there was no problem. anyone could help me out with this???

or anyone can tell me where to get the drivers?
Regards
Rifaz Mohammed

[nixscripter]

First thing: what's the wireless card? If you don't know, and it's PCI run:

lspci -nn

and look for it in the list.

I have a 1420n, and I can tell you that the wireless card is different from many other Dell models.

[Mike Schafir]

Did you get your wifi working on your Studio 1535? I also have a new Dell Studio 1535 with the Dell Wireless-N 1510 half mini-card and want to create a dual-boot system with Vista and Ubuntu 8.04. Has anyone got this card working in their Studio or other dell system yet?

Is there a driver for this card or will the NDISwrapper solution work for this card?


thanks.

[edajai]

the wireless card used in dell studio 1535 is
"dell wireless 1397 802.11b/g half mini card"
Do tell me a workaround to this problem..

[nixscripter]

Unfortunately, I can only find VISTA drivers, which I don't think use NDIS (for ndiswrapper). However, you can try:

http://support.dell.com/support/topi...up&file=254194

You may need wine to unpack it, though (it's an EXE).

If that doesn't work, I suppose the only thing left to do, stupid though it sounds, is buy an external wireless card. One of the brands here:

http://www.goonda.org/archive/wireless/

Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

[falcon61102]

Do us a favor, go to your terminal and list the results of:

lspci

and

lshw -C network

You may have a common problem with Dells that is rather easily fixed.

[edajai]

i'll post the output soon (most prob on 19th) as i'm not at home right now. Pls bear with me for the inconvenience caused.

[Mike Schafir]

Falcon61102:

As mentioned above, I have a Dell Studio 1535 with the Dell 1510 Wireless-N wifi card in it. Here are the results to the commands on my new laptop when I run the Ubuntu 8.04 live CD. Any thoughts on how to get my wifi working with this card?

thank you.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobilitiy Radeon HD 3400 Series
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV620 Audio device [Radeon HD 34xx Series]
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5784M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: NetLink BCM5784M Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: 00:1d:09:be:ea:89
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.86 latency=0 module=tg3 multicast=yes
*-network DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 2
logical name: pan0
serial: 16:d5:c3:4c:c0:3a
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A multicast=yes

[falcon61102]

Alright thanks for info. I have a HowTo that I put together from a couple different sources and a lot of research that should do the trick. However, I don't have a direct link for the drivers your are going to need. The drivers from dell should work, but they need to be the WinXP version. If you could, download the drivers for your card through dell and save them somewhere that you can access in your Ubuntu OS. Also, if you can't connect to the net through Ubuntu, you will need to download ndiswrapper and put that with your drivers. Here is the most current link for that:

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/ndi...er-1.53.tar.gz

Then give me a couple minutes to get this written up for you and you should be good to go.

[Mike Schafir]

Thank you falcon61102 for your help. We may have a problem, however as Dell only provides Vista drivers for this network card on this laptop. I can't find a WinXP driver for it.