Well I have a dell Inspiron e1705 I haven't used it sence like 2010 because my little brother sprayed doterent but tonight I truest it it had windows vista and the wifi worked so I put Ubuntu on it because windows is crap and it transfers all drivers in Ubuntu the wifi and Bluetooth where off so I turned them on with fn+f2 it turned Bluetooth on but wifi did not work



Sincerely,



Lukas Crockett. Thank u

Hi there,

Have a look at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1763547, which may help you solve the problem.

Regards,

Clifford

Which wifi card do you have (look 'lspci')? Do you have firmware installed (look 'dmesg|grep firmware')?

it says device not ready (firmware missing)

i just neded to enable the wireless driver duh

no it did not work

Hi sycho123321,

in order to help you out it would be really nice if you could give us some more specific details about the hardware you are using. Please run a console like 'xterm' (if you have an entry like "run program" in your GUI just type 'xterm' (without quotes)). Then type "lspci" like otoomet suggested.

Heres what I see my system:

Just post your output here so we can identify the type of your card and the appropriate driver.

Regards,

Chris

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X1400
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)

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ok there you go

The appropriate module (driver) for your system should be bcm4311.

Turn on your WiFi Adapter (per button or fn+f2). You can then find out if it is loaded by typing the following:

That means that your linux knows about that WiFi adapter. If you type "/sbin/ifconfig -a", you should see at least three network adapters: one called lo, one called eth0 and a third one, which should be your WiFi. You can of course post the output of "/sbin/ifconfig -a" here if you need further assistance.

If you can see your WiFi Adapter with ifconfig, then it is no longer a hardware problem and your WiFi is fine. You will have to meddle with the software (I think Ubuntu uses NetworkManager and the nm-applet, but I'm really not sure).


If on the other hand you do not see a module loaded or the WiFi does not appear in ifconfig's listing, you should try out the following: http://askubuntu.com/questions/38327...reless-working (answer No. 26)

From what I see, that thread describes the same procedure as cliffordw's post, but a bit clearer.


Now: is the module loaded and does the WiFi appear in ifconfig?

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:8b:da:66:da
inet addr:192.168.1.113 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: 2002:42e8:4f25:0:218:8bff:feda:66da/64 Scope:Global
inet6 addr: fe80::218:8bff:feda:66da/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4994 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3980 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5085951 (5.0 MB) TX bytes:564914 (564.9 KB)
Interrupt:17

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

Well, there's definitely no WiFi in that output. ETH0 is propably the wired connection.

Am I right to suppose that you saw that the bcm4311 module is loaded and you enabled your wifi via fn+f2 prior running ifconfig? If that is so, then the module is not appropriate for your WiFi adapter and you will have to use the firmware version.

Did you give the b43 module from the given link above a try? Just open that link and follow Answer 26 to the letter.

actualy i got it to work

You should describe how as detailed as possible so that other people who have the same problem can benefit from your solution.