i'm having a lot of trouble getting my wifi to work on my dell inspiron e1405 laptop.

I looked through the forums and tried a few solutions to no avail. I have included some relevant info about my setup below. I'm a newbie. I was thinking of posting in networking but I thought I'd try here first. Let me know if there is any other info I can get you. I really want this to work. Thanks in advance.

~$ iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.



eth1 IEEE 802.11 Access Point: Not-Associated

Link Quality:5 Signal level:0 Noise level:0

Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0



eth0 no wireless extensions.



~$ ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:c5:6c:1f:97

inet addr:192.168.1.4 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

inet6 addr: fe80::215:c5ff:fe6c:1f97/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:44506 errors:1 dropped:1 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:20442 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:56732430 (56.7 MB) TX bytes:1550102 (1.5 MB)

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:55 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:55 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:5136 (5.1 KB) TX bytes:5136 (5.1 KB)



~$ pslspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (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)

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)

02:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller

02:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)

02:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)

02:01.3 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)

]0;blendergasket@THING: ~blendergasket@THING:~$ ls

Desktop examples.desktop Public Videos

Documents Music Templates wifiTroubleshoot.txt

Downloads Pictures typescript

There seems to be wireless card that has been detected just not connected to the network.
Look here for the similar issue.
try out the commands suggested to connected to wireless connection manually and see if you get to internet.

I went to that thread and did what it requested and it didn't work. I started by disabling the encryption on my router. I figure I'll try without and then deal with that hurdle afterward.

i type sudo iwconfig eth1 essid <my ssid> then type my admin pw, then it took me to a new command prompt without saying anything. I then downloaded dhcpcd with apt-get and used the command dhcpcd -d eth1. I will include the results in the next post. The icon on the menu bar still has the Wireless Networks greyed out and says "wireless is disabled" I'm still unable to get onto the internet.

the results from dhcpcd:

blendergasket@THING:~$ sudo dhcpcd -d eth1
info, eth1: dhcpcd 3.2.3 starting
info, eth1: hardware address = 00:16:cf:53:fe:dc
info, eth1: DUID = 00:01:00:01:14:50:58:58:00:16:cf:53:fe:dc
info, eth1: broadcasting for a lease
debug, eth1: sending DHCP_DISCOVER with xid 0x50dbd8f4
debug, eth1: waiting for 20 seconds
debug, eth1: sending DHCP_DISCOVER with xid 0x50dbd8f4
debug, eth1: sending DHCP_DISCOVER with xid 0x50dbd8f4
debug, eth1: sending DHCP_DISCOVER with xid 0x50dbd8f4
debug, eth1: sending DHCP_DISCOVER with xid 0x50dbd8f4
debug, eth1: sending DHCP_DISCOVER with xid 0x50dbd8f4
debug, eth1: sending DHCP_DISCOVER with xid 0x50dbd8f4
err, eth1: timed out
info, eth1: trying to use old lease in `/var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth1.info'
debug, eth1: sending ARP probe #1
debug, eth1: sending ARP probe #2
debug, eth1: sending ARP probe #3
debug, eth1: sending ARP claim #1
debug, eth1: sending ARP claim #2
warn, eth1: using IPV4LL address 169.254.50.181
info, eth1: adding IP address 169.254.50.181/16
debug, eth1: no dns information to write
debug, eth1: exec "/etc/dhcpcd.sh" "/var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-eth1.info" "new"
debug, eth1: forking to background
info, eth1: exiting
blendergasket@THING:~$ dhcpcd.sh: interface eth1 has been configured with new IP=169.254.50.181

here's what I get when I do sudo lshw -C network

*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
logical name: eth1
version: 01
serial: 00:16:cf:53:fe:dc
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=5.60.48.36 ip=169.254.50.181 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
resources: irq:17 memory:dfdfc000-dfdfffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth1-eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:15:c5:6c:1f:97
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=2.0 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.4 latency=64 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
resources: irq:17 memory:df9fe000-df9fffff

Have a read of this. I haven't bothered trying Maverick yet, but worked for me on a netbook on Lucid

If the network is shown as disabled, then right click on the icon and enable it.

I tried the instructions in the post 2 above me and always get hung up on this command:

sudo modprobe -r b43 ssb

I always get the following error message:

FATAL: Module ssb is in use.

Any ideas?

That's only needed if you don't reboot.

I've rebooted after every change I've made. Somehow now it doesn't show up in the connections list anymore. Not even as disabled.