[ubuntu-za] Wireless Inoperative on DELL Inspiron

[Ray Lombard]

Thanks Frans.  All sorted and running well.  Now I have to get the webcam
running on Skype but that's another challenge.  We will get there
eventually.

Take care out there,

Ray

-----Original Message-----
From: frans [mailto:dormakorp at vodamail.co.za] 
Sent: 27 May 2011 14:55
To: Ubuntu South African Local Community
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Wireless Inoperative on DELL Inspiron


I had to use the wireless drivers that I compile myself for my net-book
too(for the eth port), you should at least make sure you get the complete
package and be patient, try not to get the packages customized to a specific
kernel those are just plain confusing :).

A kernel upgrade fix this for me and when I installed 11.04 even my
Bluetooth v3.0 connection worked, no fiddling needed :)

Sure there are other "older" hardware that's not supported any more but I'm
not using it on any of my systems yet so no problem.

When relatively new hardware stops working it gets to be a problem though.

On 11/05/27 10:56 AM, Ray Lombard wrote:
> Hi William,
>
> I am going to try this tomorrow first.  I followed the other 
> advisories and the machine told me that there was a problem with 
> extracting the drivers from the archive and now keeps on telling me 
> that there is a problem with the system.  So I am asking Wesley for an 
> official Ubuntu CD and will kiss what I've got and re-install from the
Ubuntu CD.
>
> Thank you for your kind assistance and to all the others that have 
> tried to help many thanks.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ray
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Walter Kinghorn [mailto:williamk at dut.ac.za]
> Sent: 26 May 2011 14:13
> To: wesley.werner at gmail.com; Ubuntu South African Local Community
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Wireless Inoperative on DELL Inspiron
>
> Hi Alf, and Wesley,
>
> Ray's problem is that it works in previous versions of Ubuntu, but not 
> in
> 11.04
>
> He might need to do the rfkill command, as that has helped some people
>
> William
> ________________________________________
> From: ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Wesley Werner 
> [wesley.werner at gmail.com]
> Sent: 26 May 2011 13:58
> To: Ubuntu South African Local Community
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Wireless Inoperative on DELL Inspiron
>
> Some Inspirion models have this as a slide-switch on the side. Google 
> your Inspirion model + manual to help find it.
>
> ------Original Message------
> From: Alf Stockton
> Sender: ubuntu-za-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> To: Ubuntu South African Local Community
> ReplyTo: Ubuntu South African Local Community
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-za] Wireless Inoperative on DELL Inspiron
> Sent: May 26, 2011 13:49
>
> On 2011/05/26 13:34, William Walter Kinghorn wrote:
>> Hi Ray,
>>
>> I was reading the comments, Pádraic says go to this on ubuntuforums :
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1745681&page=3
>>
>> Possibly wireless is disabled by hardware switch, in Ubuntu 11.04
>>
> On my ThinkPad T500 I had to press Fn-F5 to get it to work and 
> continually pressing this combination cycles thru Wireless&  
> Bluetooth, Wireless, Bluetooth, No wireless or Bluetooth.
>
>
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