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Wireless Help on Dell Laptop (SOLVED!)

Post by Ginga1911 »

Hello,

I posted on here a couple of days ago about a getting my wireless to work through virtual box and i decided to just partition my hard drive and install linux mint. I'm running linux mint 9 and i still can't seem to get my wireless to work. I have a dell 1490 dual band WLAN mini card. I'm using ndiswrapper or at least i hope i follwed all of the steps right for that (found here http://linux.us.dell.com/wiki/index.php ... ndiswrapper) thanks biker :) but it still doesn't seem to be working. Also I am a linux newbie so go easy please.

Here is my results for lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (Internal gfx)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 1)
00:07.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS690 PCI to PCI Bridge (PCI Express Port 3)
00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Series]
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
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 R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)
0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev 01)

and if i run ndiswrapper -l i get this

WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a future release.
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, it will be ignored in a future release.
bcmwl6 : driver installed
device (14E4:4312) present (alternate driver: ssb)

Thank you everyone
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Re: Wireless Help on Dell Laptop

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Post the output of iwconfig please.
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vincent

Re: Wireless Help on Dell Laptop

Post by vincent »

Also, the output of the mintWifi script might help as well. Just type the following in a terminal:

Code: Select all

sudo mintWifi
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Ginga1911

Re: Wireless Help on Dell Laptop

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here are the iwconfig results

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off

pan0 no wireless extensions.




and here is sudo mintWifi


* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev 01)
==> PCI ID = 14e4:4312 (rev 01)
-------------------------
* II. querying ndiswrapper...
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper, it will be ignored in a future release.
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, it will be ignored in a future release.
bcmwl6 : driver installed
device (14E4:4312) present (alternate driver: ssb)
-------------------------
* III. querying iwconfig...
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off

pan0 no wireless extensions.

-------------------------
* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:b9:7e:4f:9c
inet addr:192.168.2.5 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: 2002:4591:16c6:1234:219:b9ff:fe7e:4f9c/64 Scope:Global
inet6 addr: fe80::219:b9ff:fe7e:4f9c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5951 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5171 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5099235 (5.0 MB) TX bytes:679704 (679.7 KB)
Interrupt:21

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:267 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:267 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:9753 (9.7 KB) TX bytes:9753 (9.7 KB)

-------------------------
* V. querying DHCP...
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.3
Copyright 2004-2009 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/

SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
Listening on LPF/pan0/c2:65:b0:f9:85:71
Sending on LPF/pan0/c2:65:b0:f9:85:71
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:19:7e:cc:08:99
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:19:7e:cc:08:99
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:19:b9:7e:4f:9c
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:19:b9:7e:4f:9c
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on pan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
receive_packet failed on wlan0: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPOFFER of 192.168.2.5 from 192.168.2.1
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.2.5 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK of 192.168.2.5 from 192.168.2.1
bound to 192.168.2.5 -- renewal in 130857641 seconds.
-------------------------
* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 192.168.2.1
Address: 192.168.2.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.155.105
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.155.106
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.155.147
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.155.99
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.155.103
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.155.104

sorry about the long post
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Re: Wireless Help on Dell Laptop

Post by Biker »

You are attempting to connect WiFi with the ethernet cable removed, yes? You can not use both at the same time.
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Ginga1911

Re: Wireless Help on Dell Laptop

Post by Ginga1911 »

Hey everyone sorry about the late response my internet has been out. I have the cable removed when i try and run the commands and try and connect, but i plug it back in to post on here or to look around for answers. I don't know if that matters i don't see why it would
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atovinov

Re: Wireless Help on Dell Laptop

Post by atovinov »

A friend has the BCM4312 in his Dell 1545. He installed the operating system using his wired Ethernet. While still plugged in, he pulled up the System>Administration>Hardware Drivers options. He selected the STA driver, installed it, unplugged his wired Ethernet, rebooted, and the BCM4312 wi-fi was available for configuration. I know this method worked for him.
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Ginga1911

Re: Wireless Help on Dell Laptop

Post by Ginga1911 »

:D !!!!! success! Thank you everyone for all of the help and taking the time with me. On a sidenote I have just decided to delete my windows partition and go full linux mint :)
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atovinov

Re: Wireless Help on Dell Laptop (SOLVED!)

Post by atovinov »

Congratulations, Ginga1911. Glad to hear you have your wi-fi working properly, as well as going 100% Linux.
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