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<SOLVED> Dell inspiron 1545 wireless or wired connection
Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2013 9:46 am
by smpk111
Hi,
Yesterday, I installed linux mint 14 cinnamon on Dell inspiron 1545. I used to work with Ubuntu using wubi installation, never had any problems. Here, for some reason even the wired connection is not recognized. I tried some of the options discussed here, for e.g adding f43 (or similar to that) in /etc/modules. Didn't help. There are also lengthy procedures I found on the net, for which I have to download many files. Is there a shortcut to solve this. Otherwise, I think it would be better to switch Ubuntu. Tx for the help.
sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
[sudo] password
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
==> PCI ID = 14e4:4315 (rev 01)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr a4:ba:db:a6:48:eb
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:18
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:240 (240.0 B) TX bytes:240 (240.0 B)
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* V. querying DHCP...
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached
Re: Dell inspiron 1545 wireless or wired connection not work
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 11:55 am
by smpk111
I downloaded b43-fwcutter, broadcom firmware after switching to windows 7 and used a code similar to this
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sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware broadcom-wl-5.10.56.27.3/driver/wl_apsta/wl_prebuilt.o
The error message was:
sudo b43-fwcutter command not found
I checked some google links with this error message, but so far I was not able to work.
How do I uninstall linux mint? I installed by partitioning the drive.
Re: Dell inspiron 1545 wireless or wired connection not work
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 2:03 pm
by smpk111
Hi,
Please help.
I tried many options available on the net. So far, none is working.
Re: Dell inspiron 1545 wireless or wired connection not work
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 2:56 pm
by AlbertP
For the 4312, you need to install firmware-b43-lpphy-installer from the repository when connected to wired internet.
But since your wired internet is not working either, we'll first have to fix that. Please run inxi -N in terminal and post the output: there we'll also see the wired ethernet chip of your computer.
Re: Dell inspiron 1545 wireless or wired connection not work
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2013 4:42 pm
by smpk111
Thanks Albert for the reply.
I tried the codes you suggested.
Inspiron-1545 ~ $ inxi -N
Network: Card-1: Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY driver: b43-pci-bridge
Card-2: Marvell 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller driver: sky2
Re: Dell inspiron 1545 wireless or wired connection not work
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 8:18 am
by AlbertP
Your wired ethernet should just work. Could you post the output of:
Are you sure that your wired connection doesn't need any special configuration like setting the DNS server?
Maybe it's also useful to post the kernel log. You can run dmesg > dmesg.txt in terminal, then attach the dmesg.txt file which is found in your home folder, to your forum post.
Re: Dell inspiron 1545 wireless or wired connection not work
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 12:09 pm
by smpk111
Dear Albert,
Thanks.
I attached .doc format, as .txt format is not getting attached.
ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr a4:ba:db:a6:48:eb
inet6 addr: fe80::a6ba:dbff:fea6:48eb/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:376 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:15 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:23762 (23.7 KB) TX bytes:4025 (4.0 KB)
Interrupt:18
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:240 (240.0 B) TX bytes:240 (240.0 B)
Re: Dell inspiron 1545 wireless or wired connection not work
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 2:55 pm
by AlbertP
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[ 16.335721] sky2 0000:09:00.0: >eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex, flow control rx
[ 16.336225] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
eth0 is not assigned an IP address in the ifconfig output. Are you sure your ethernet connection doesn't need a fixed IP to be assigned?
Otherwise try downloading Marvell's driver from
http://www.marvell.com/support/downloads/: choose 88E8040 at the left, then download the "Kernel 2.6.x Linux Driver Install Package for Yukon Devices".
Re: Dell inspiron 1545 wireless or wired connection not work
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 11:12 pm
by smpk111
Dear Albert,
I tried to fix the wired connection. But, it seems like I can't change OFF mode to ON. It just changes the position from ON to OFF and the options are therefore not visible.
Downloaded the Marvells' driver. But, I am experiencing difficulty in installing it. I followed the README file after the file was untarred
tar xvjf install_v10.92.1.3.tar.bz2
./install.sh
./install.sh: 44: ./functions: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
Tried ./configure, it is not working.
Re: Dell inspiron 1545 wireless or wired connection not work
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 5:06 am
by AlbertP
You said that Ubuntu was working. That could possibly be because Ubuntu also installs kernel updates by default: you can install the updates to linux-headers and linux-image from Synaptic Package Manager (Status > installed (upgradeable) at the left).
Re: Dell inspiron 1545 wireless or wired connection not work
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2013 9:50 am
by smpk111
Dear Albert,
I installed ubuntu through wubi. It was on dell xps 15z. Its harddrive got broken. So, I switched to dell inspiron 1545. It doesn't have linux.
When I used the command:
sudo bash ./install.sh
It showed 4 options: 1. installation 2....., I tried the first one. Then, it asked for whether to remove the already existing drivers. After providing the option 'No", I got a fatal error message, and the installation stopped.
Re: Dell inspiron 1545 wireless or wired connection not work
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 5:03 pm
by smpk111
Seems like I have to return back to Ubuntu. I tried many days for either wired/wireless connection. Both of them seems to be not working.
Re: Dell inspiron 1545 wireless or wired connection not work
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 5:19 am
by AlbertP
Alternatively you could try to get wifi working by installing the Broadcom STA driver. You can download it from here:
http://ubuntu.mirror.cambrium.nl/ubuntu ... 3_i386.deb (32-bit)
http://ubuntu.mirror.cambrium.nl/ubuntu ... _amd64.deb (64-bit)
You can just double-click that DEB package to install it.
Usually I prefer using the b43 driver on the 4312 chip but that one is harder to install with no ethernet.
Also, you said you had run Ubuntu on a different laptop? Then probably on this laptop Ubuntu won't work either. Mint 14 is based on Ubuntu 12.10.
Re: Dell inspiron 1545 wireless or wired connection not work
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 1:36 pm
by smpk111
Dear Albert,
You are the best!
Thank you very much for helping me.
I was able to connect to wifi now.
Have a great day!
Re: <SOLVED> Dell inspiron 1545 wireless or wired connection
Posted: Fri Mar 08, 2013 4:07 am
by ainan
This driver works for my Dell Inspiron 1464 Laptop. I'm using Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon Nadia 64bit.. great