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net - ubuntu help Top of Form Search Bottom of Form r, Sign in using your Launchpad ID O buntu Forums > The Ubuntu Forum Community > Main Support Categories > Networkin U [SOLVED] Broadcom STA Wireless drivers not working on Dell Inspirion 1501, Ubunt g & Wireless Top of u 12.04Form Bottom of Password Remember Form User NameMe? SearchCouncil Today's Forum Help Reset Password RegisterPosts Networking & Wireless Having problems getting connected to the internet or getting your wireless card to work? Ask here. 1 Page 1 of New Reply 2 > 2 Display Modes Thread Tools View First Unread JRod13 #1 5 Days Ago First Cup of Ubuntu Join Date: May 2012 Broadcom Beans: 4 STA Wireless drivers not working on Dell Inspirion 1501, Ubuntu 12.04 When I go into the additional drivers section of system settings, i click activa te and I receive the following error: "Sorry, installation of this driver failed. Please have a look at the log file for details: /var/log/jockey.log" Here is some info from lspci -nn | grep 0280: 05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [ 14e4:4311] (rev 01) praseodym #2 Ago Thanks for the help.... 5 Days Chocolate-Covered Ubuntu Beans Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Berlin, Germany Beans: 2,421 Re: Broadcom STA Wireless Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx drivers not working on Dell Inspirion 1501, Ubuntu 12. 04 Hi, you only need the firmware for the b43 driver for this device: Code: wget http://media.cdn.ubuntu-de.org/forum...irmware.tar.gz sudo tar xvf 2480236-Broadcom_Firmware.tar.gz -C /lib/firmware/ chili555 #3 5 Days Ago Ubuntu addict and loving it

 Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: South Carolina, USA Beans: 13,156 Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin Re: Broadcom STA Wireless drivers not working on Dell Inspirion 1501, Ubuntu 12. 04 Please temporarily hook up the ethernet temporarily and open a terminal and do: Code: sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree sudo modprobe -r b43 sudo modprobe b43 Detach the ethernet. Now is it working? __________________ Registered Linux User #374501 "Oh, Ubuntu, you are my favorite Linux-based operating system." --Dr. Sheldon Co JRod13 #4 oper Ago 5 Days First Cup of Ubuntu Join Date: May 2012 Re: Broadcom STA Wireless drivers not working on Dell Inspirion 1501, Ubuntu 12. Beans: 4 04 Thanks for the repsonses, folks. I hooked up the ethernet but my connection toggles on/off. It says when it's on that it's running at 100 mbits/s but yet I am unable to load web pages?.... chili555 #5 5 Days Ago Ubuntu addict and loving it Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: South Carolina, USA Beans: 13,156 Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin Re: Broadcom STA Wireless drivers not working on Dell Inspirion 1501, Ubuntu 12. 04 You didn't say you also have a wired ethernet problem. Sorry, only one problem p er customer per day. Just kidding! With the ethernet connected, please run and post: Code: dmesg | grep eth ifconfig Thanks. __________________ Registered Linux User #374501 "Oh, Ubuntu, you are my favorite Linux-based operating system." --Dr. Sheldon Co JRod13 #6 oper Ago 5 Days First Cup of Ubuntu Join Date: May 2012 Re: Broadcom STA Wireless drivers not working on Dell Inspirion 1501, Ubuntu 12. Beans: 4 04

Quote: Originally Posted by chili555 You didn't say you also have a wired ethernet problem. Sorry, only one problem p er customer per day. Just kidding! With the ethernet connected, please run and post: Code: dmesg | grep eth ifconfig Thanks. Haha! I actually got it working. I ran the following command: sudo dpkg --configure -a and the ethernet had a continuous connection. I then ran the commands in your pr evious post and got the wireless working too! Thanks for your help! chili555 #7 5 Days Ago Ubuntu addict and loving it Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: South Carolina, USA Beans: 13,156 Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin Re: Broadcom STA Wireless drivers not working on Dell Inspirion 1501, Ubuntu 12. 04 Excellent! Glad it's working. Please use thread tools at the top to Mark Solved. __________________ Registered Linux User #374501 "Oh, Ubuntu, you are my favorite Linux-based operating system." --Dr. Sheldon Co dvdivx #8 oper Ago 5 Days First Cup of Ubuntu Join Date: Apr 2008 Re: Broadcom STA Wireless drivers not working on Dell Inspirion 1501, Ubuntu 12. Beans: 9 04 Exact same problem here with more useless apt-get solutions. This really needs a n OFFLINE solution since if the computer has no internet connection it's not goi ng to apt-get anything. chili555 #9 5 Days Ago Ubuntu addict and loving it Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: South Carolina, USA Beans: 13,156 Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin Re: Broadcom STA Wireless drivers not working on Dell Inspirion 1501, Ubuntu 12.

04 Quote: Mind same check first? Please run and post: Exactif we problem here with more useless apt-get solutions. Code: lspci -nn | grep 0280 The pipe symbol | is on the right side of my US keyboard on the same key with \. Quote: I probably needs an I don't usually This reallyhave one! OFFLINE solutionpropose it at the start for a laptop becaus e the user can almost always walk over to the router and hook up. Quote: __________________ Broadcom STA Wireless drivers not working on Dell Inspirion 1501 Registered Linux User #374501 "Oh, Ubuntu, you are my favorite Linux-based operating system." --Dr. Sheldon Co JRod13 #10 oper Ago 5 Days First Cup of Ubuntu Join Date: May 2012 Re: Broadcom STA Wireless drivers not working on Dell Inspirion 1501, Ubuntu 12. Beans: 4 04 Quote: Originally Posted by chili555 Excellent! Glad it's working. Please use thread tools at the top to Mark Solved. 1 Page ew Reply Done!1 of 2 > 2 N * Digg Bookmarks * del.icio.us * StumbleUpon * Google broadcom sta wireless Tags Previous Thread | Next Thread You may Posting You may You may You may not post Rules not post not post not edit new threads replies attachments your posts

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