If it doesn't work after a restart of the machine, you should open System Settings via the cog menu on the top right and select 'Additional Drivers.' Assuming we have similar dells you should have an option in there for the broadcom-sta driver, which you can select and click 'Activate.'<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Peng Yu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pengyu.ut@gmail.com">pengyu.ut@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">> On my old dell I almost always had to install the driver through synaptic<br>
> after hooking up the laptop to a wired connection. A package you might try<br>
> is bcmwl-kernel-source.<br>
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</div>I have installed bcmwl-kernel-source. "Enable Wireless" is still gray.<br>
What did you do last time to resolve the issue?<br>
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