"Enable Wireless" is gray on ubuntu 11.10 (Dell Vostro 1520)

[Mark Paskal]

On my old dell I almost always had to install the driver through synaptic
after hooking up the laptop to a wired connection. A package you might try
is bcmwl-kernel-source.

On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> wrote:

> > At the risk of stating the obvious (it's happened to me!) check there is
> no
> > hardware switch to disable wireless (usually on laptops and a very small
> > switch)
>
> I have made sure that the switch is on.
>
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> Peng
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