Two problems. I've been googling like a fiend and have come up blank on both counts.


Problem 1: Bluetooth mouse. I have a "Dell BT Travel Mouse". I did have it working at one point, just after installation, via "sudo hidd --search". However, it would only initialize sometimes upon rebooting. After messing with it (when hidd --search didn't work), I've managed to get it removed from the Bluetooth device list and can't detect it again. I've tried the GUI bluetooth preferences and device list, hcitool, and hidd in every way I can imagine; they all turn out nothing. I've tried manually connecting with --connect (MAC address), but it doesn't find anything.


Problem 2: Wireless with Broadcom BCM4312. I have a "proprietary driver" on here, but enabling it does nothing. Nothing I've found on searches seems to help here either. Usually I come up with the same card under a different install version or in a different laptop, or some variation where one of the three is what I have but the other two are different.
I have tried ndiswrapper on the .inf available for the card, but to no avail - it says the driver is already installed, which I assume is the "proprietary" shown to me in System->Hardware Drivers?


Any help would be greatly appreciated! I've spent a good 8+ hours and gotten nowhere, it's maddening.

Download and install this file "http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/pool/hardy-cafuego/broadcom/bcm43xx-firmware_1.4-0cafuego1_all.deb".Now restart your laptop, and it should work. If not, try this one "http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/pool/hardy-cafuego/broadcom/b43-firmware_1.0-0cafuego0_all.deb". If those don't work, I'm not sure where to go from there, I just got this to work today, very proud of myself, I tried countless times to get it to work, and now I'm typing this from my fresh install of Hardy. Good Luck.

No go

It's odd, when I boot up the system the wireless status light isn't on. Then I open up Hardware Drivers, see that the driver is enabled but the device is not in use, so I disable and re-enable, and the light comes on. However, I still cannot use the thing because Ubuntu tells me a restart is required. I restart, and I'm back to the driver being enabled but the device not being used (with the light off).

Got the mouse to work again.

So now just the wireless problem remains. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I have a 1525 Inspiron with a 4312 card. Fedora 10 does not see the card at all. I downloaded the official Broadcom driver for Linux and the 4312 but cannot install it because for some reason, Fedora 10 "cannot find" the 'make' command necessary to install the driver.

I have the correct driver but have no idea where to go from here. If you have any information, please contact me directly at
vpn1951@yahoo.com . Thanks.

t. martin