12.04, Dell Vostro 1720, and good experiences?

[Karl Auer]

Hi all.

I wanted to upgrade from 10.10 to 12.04. However when I booted 12.04 off
USB stick, there was no wireless network. In fact, Network Manager said
"wireless disabled" which is definitely not the case.

I could try a wired connection, but I really don't want to go through
the whole upgrade just to discover that wireless doesn't work. I tried
the install on a different laptop and wireless DID work, so I'm now
concerned that my laptop (Dell Vostro 1720 - yes, I know, a heap of
****) is somehow incompatible with 12.04.

Hence my question: Has anyone tried this combination and found it
worked?

The wireless networking hardware is

   Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 [802.11a/g/n (1x2)]

Regards, K.

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