[ubuntu-utah] Dell

[John Anderson]

> On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 14:16 -0600, Ian van Natter wrote:
> > Just keep me updated on meetings and I can put up fliers at work.  I
> > also let the managers here know that the LoCo is willing to help with
> > anyone that wants to learn.  No one really knows what we will end up
> > doing with Linux besides the hardware support.
> >
> > On a side note, can someone fix wireless!?  I had some free time today
> > and got down to installing linux on my new(ish) machine (a Dell E1505
> > with the Dell wireless card, Broadcom chipset).  I spent almost 3
> > hours running everything I could find on how to get this running and
> > its still no go.  The computer doesn't even recognize the card but
> > NDISwrapper says the driver is already loaded....do'h!
> > Is wireless support going to get any better with Linux?  It seems to
> > be getting worse.  I am not a programmer so there is little I can do
> > but complain!  For a few of us there is nothing else we can use but
> > Wireless most the time.  I can't run a 100 foot ethernet cable through
> > the house!
> >
> > Thanks guys!
> >
> > Ian


I have a dell e1505 laptop and both the broadcom and the wireless are
supported out of the box with both edgy and feisty. If the broadcom isn't be
recognize you'll just have to recompile your kernel to have support for it.
And as for your wireless, if you are running the intel 3945abg their is
native linux support via the ipw3945 module (
http://ipw3945.sourceforge.net/ )  which is also pre-loaded in both edgy and
feisty.

One thing you might want to do if you aren't running feisty is get network
manager installed, it'll help you manage your wireless connections.
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