Intrepid Ibex, Wireless Won't Work on DELL D600

[Gary Herbert]

*I ended up using the wired connection.... found the update real quick by
itself installed it and rebooted ubuntu and I was wireless....

Gary H.*

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:25, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On 02/11/2009 09:05 AM, Zaki Akhmad wrote:
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> > Hello,
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> > I am using Intrepid Ibex on DELL D600. I have following these
> > steps[1], on b43 legacy. But my wireless still won't work. Any idea?
> [...]
> > [1]http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#firmwareinstallation
>
> What happened when you used the b43-fwcutter (sudo apt-get install
> b43-fwcutter) from the repo & then installed using
> System|Administration|Hardware Drivers? Also, your kernel is pretty old
> - the current version is 2.6.27-11. You might try (using a wired
> connection of course):
>
> sudo apt-get remove --purge b43-fwcutter
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrade
> sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
>
> and then (still wired) System|Administration|Hardware Drivers and
> install from there.
>
> It that doesn't work, have a look through these:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/b43-fwcutter
> to see if perhaps you can find a related bug.
>
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