[ubuntu-uk] Dell Inspiron 1750 Problems

[Kris Douglas]

On 4 May 2010 00:46, Kris Douglas <krisdouglas at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4 May 2010 00:24, Nigel Verity <nigelverity at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> i have just bought a Dell Inspiron 1750 laptop, and installed Xubuntu on it. I have 2 problems:
>>
>> 1) I cannot get it to detect any wi-fi network connection. It has a Broadcom 4312 wi-fi adaptor.
>>
>> 2) I can find no way of disabling the intensely annoying touchpad. There is no option in the BIOS config,
>> and even its original Windows 7 control panel had no option, either. Does anybody know where the
>> Linux driver might be located, so I can disable it?
>>
>> Any suggestions on either point would be very much appreciated.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Nige
>
> The trackpads on those laptops are hated by many, many people. Simple
> fix to kill the thing though:
>
> "synclient TouchpadOff=1"  to turn it offf, and "synclient
> TouchpadOff=0" to turn it on. These are command line arguments, and
> last time I checked you didn't need to be root.
>
> As for the wifi, are there any restricted drivers available to
> download on your machine (check in System>Administration>Hardware
> Drivers menu), you may need to connect to the internet for this to
> work, use a LAN cable. But You might be OK without.
>
> try plugging a network cable in and running "sudo apt-get update" and
> then "sudo apt-get install bcmwl_kernel_source", it should fix it.
>
> Hope that helped.

Ooh, sorry for a doublepost but I read Xubuntu. I don't know where the
"Hardware drivers" option is, but I'm sure it will be around the
Administration section on your menus. As far as I know, the name is
standardised.


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