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Why no wireless on Installed (dualboot with XP) Ubuntu 7.10.

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#1

I hope someone smarter then me will read this. I've never used linux before. All excited to finally get a look at Ubuntu, I incerted the ver 7.10 cd in my new Dell 1525 laptop and rebooted. Everything seemed to go smoothly with my dual boot install, but when I rebooted, Ubuntu had no internet access through my wireless. Under System >> Administration >> Network, there's not even a wireless option listed. I rebooted in XP and the wireless worked fine. I looked up the card and drivers under XP (below) but, I have to admit being a novice, and really don't know what to do with that information or what to do next. I hate to give up on linux/Ubuntu. Your assistance in this matter would be appreciated.

Technicals: Dell Inspiron 1525 Inter Celeron CPU 550@2Ghz 1.99 Gbytes RAM

Dell Wireless 1395 WLAN mini-card revision 2.10 IRQ 17 Memory Range FE7FC000 - FE7FFFFF Driver: C:\windows\system32\drivers\BCMWL5.sys Broadband corp. File ver 4.170.25.12 Driver chipset BCM4315/BCM22062000 MAC address 00:1F:E1:2B:31:87 Location US Channel 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 and that's all I know about that.

#2

Please see this [[COLOR="Red"]thread[/COLOR]]("http://sudan.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php?t=734221").

#3

the driver is in the repo now if you dint install ndiswrapper then skip steps 2,3,4 1.Update & upgrade using update-manager/synaptic/adept etc 2.


sudo apt-get remove ndisgtk ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
  1. Remove the ndiswrapper line from /etc/modules
  2. Disable wireless from the network manager applet and then
sudo modprobe -r ndiswrapper

If it cribs about module being in use, it means you have not disabled wireless

I see a wl driver here. Make sure it says enabled and is in use.

  1. Restart, if there were any kernel upgrades
  2. System->Administration->Hardware Drivers

worked for me with dell 1395 on inspiron 1525