Solved: Wifi not working on Dell Latitude D520

[Flavio Costa]

Weird,

I have the same WiFi card and downloading the firmwares + the bcm43xx module
didn't work, I had to use ndiswrapper to get it working.

I've followed this instructions:
http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Tech/Wireless/Truemobile_ndiswrapper
http://www.divideandconquer.se/category/dell


On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Haneef Bashir <darkfena313 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 12:25 AM, "Terrell Prudé Jr." <
> microman at cmosnetworks.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Haneef Bashir wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Phil Bieber <philbieber at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >  On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Haneef Bashir <darkfena313 at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hello all
> > > > i just installed Hardy on a Dell Latitude D520 and wifi isnt working
> > > does
> > > > any one have a suggestion on how to fix this? thanks in advance.
> > >
> > >  Hi!
> > > Before we can help you, we would need to know, what kind of Wireless
> > > NIC you are using. And what version of Ubuntu you are running.
> > >
> >
> > its a Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card
> >
> >
> > Ah, that uses the Broadcom chipset.  I'll bet if you do an "lspci",
> > you'll see Broadcom wireless in there.
> >
> > I just did this on Hardy last week.  Fire up Synaptic and search for
> > "bcm43xx".  A package will show up for a Broadcom wireless driver.  Go ahead
> > and install it.  You may need to have both universe and multiverse enabled.
> > When you install it, there will also be an option to install the Broadcom
> > "firmware"; you may need to search for "fwcutter" in Synaptic if it doesn't
> > show up during the "bcm43xx" search.  Anyhoo, install that as well.  If you
> > get a bunch of files in /lib/firmware, then that's a good thing.  If you
> > don't, let us know.
> >
> > This ought to do the trick.
> >
> thanks Terrell what u said did the trick
>
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Flávio Coutinho da Costa
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