Dell Drivers

guitarist315 · 06-29-2008, 02:58 PM

I have a Dell Latitude D520 laptop that has a Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card... I put Fedora Core 5 on the laptop.... the driver on the support.dell.com website is not support in Linux... Is there any way around this, or some way to get this driver to work for linux?

r00tb33r · 06-29-2008, 04:11 PM

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Originally Posted by guitarist315

I have a Dell Latitude D520 laptop that has a Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card... I put Fedora Core 5 on the laptop.... the driver on the support.dell.com website is not support in Linux... Is there any way around this, or some way to get this driver to work for linux?

Post your lspci output.

beadyallen · 06-29-2008, 04:19 PM

If I were you I'd just use a newer distro. FC5 hasn't been updated in a long time. The drivers you want have been in the kernel since 2.6.17, so I'd go get FC8/9 or another newer distro and the drivers will be included (or at least they'll be easy to add through a package install).

Hope this helps

guitarist315 · 06-29-2008, 04:25 PM

Im currently on the laptop but running windows, is there an equivalent to lspci in windows?

XavierP · 06-29-2008, 05:06 PM

Go to the driver manager (right click My Computer and select Manage) and let us know the model names and numbers of your hardware.

FWIW, I have Debian Lenny on a D600 and have both updated the BIOS using the Dell BIOS updating utility in Linux and have the wireless card using native Broadcom drivers. FW-Cutter is what gets it working for me and making an amendment to a UDEV rule.