[Ilugc] Re: Webcam and Wifi in DELL laptop working with ubuntu 8.04 hardy heron
- From: mohan43u@xxxxxxxxx (Mohan R)
- Date: Thu Feb 12 00:47:43 2009
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Akarsh Simha wrote:
What wireless card ? Can you post the output of sudo lspci -v here ?
I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 n-Series laptop (Yes, one of those few
laptops in the market which come without Winblows installed).
The wireless card is a Broadcomm 43xx and the corresponding kernel
module is bcm43xx. When I last attempted to get my network card
working, the module wouldn't bind to the device for some reason.
However, my friends have got these working, although I don't know what
he did. Some quick google results:
http://www.google.com/search?q=bcm43xx+wireless+howto&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
They all seem to suggest NDIS wrapper, although there is an
alternative native module.
Regards
Akarsh
Not sure about this on Hardy, Just try,
sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules
This will install native broadcom driver. I remember broadcom released
native drivers to linux two or three weeks before the release of
Intrepid. So when I installed Intrepid, It suggested me the available
restricted native drivers for nVidia and Broadcom cards.
Here is a thread related to broadcom driver,
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=896713
Here is part of my lspci,
00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7150M (rev a2)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30cf
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at f5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at f4000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 50000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: nvidia
Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nvidia
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
(rev 02)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1375
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
Memory at f6000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: wl
Kernel modules: wl, ssb
Thanks,
Mohan
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