Wireless card not working on Dell Inspiron 2200-Ubuntu 10.04

AdorableChips · 10-09-2010, 12:25 AM

I am new to Linux. About 72 hours in, and I must say. I am quite impressed. Except for a small issue. I cannot seem to figure out how to get my wireless card working. I have used the bcm43xx technique with no avail. And am working on ndswrapper. The good news is I think I have the .sys file that works. But I don't have the .inf. However any way I could make this work would be great. Below I have posted my lspci stats.

Lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562ET/EZ/GT/GZ - PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller Mobile (rev 03)

Thank you.

rokytnji · 10-09-2010, 01:52 AM

Either I am up too late or I need glasses. I don't see a wireless card in your lspci readout and definitely don't see a broadcom reference either. Is this a PCMCIA card and if so was it plugged in when you ran lspci?

Or is this wireless USB? Which means you need to run

Code:

lsusb

with USB Wireless plugged in. I am not a broadcom proficent user as all my chips are either realtek or atheros.

Code:

biker@biker-laptop:~$ inxi -F
System:    Host biker-laptop Kernel 2.6.32-25-generic i686 (32 bit) Distro Ubuntu 10.04 lucid
CPU:       Single core Intel Atom N270 (-HT-) cache 512 KB flags (sse sse2 sse3 ssse3) bmips 3191.46 
           Clock Speeds: (1) 800.00 MHz (2) 800.00 MHz
Graphics:  Card Intel Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller X.Org 1.7.6 Res: 1024x600@60.0hz 
           GLX Renderer Mesa DRI Intel 945GME GEM 20091221 2009Q4 x86/MMX/SSE2 GLX Version 1.4 Mesa 7.7.1 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio:     Card Intel N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller driver HDA Intel BusID: 00:1b.0
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.21
Network:   Card-1 Atheros AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter driver ath5k v: 0.6.0 BusID: 03:00.0
           Card-2 Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller driver r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI at port 3000 BusID: 02:00.0
Disks:     HDD Total Size: 160.0GB (2.6% used) 1: /dev/sda WDC_WD1600BEVT 160.0GB 42C 
Partition: ID:/ size: 7.1G used: 3.3G (50%) fs: ext4 ID:/home size: 25G used: 560M (3%) fs: ext4 
           ID:swap-1 size: 2.11GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 56.0C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A 
Info:      Processes 159 Uptime 1:45 Memory 291.1/990.0MB Runlevel 2 Client Shell inxi 1.4.20

If wondering how I got the above readout. I installed it from Here

Install Instructions

Quote:

For most others, use(except in Arch or Pardus):

as root: cd /usr/local/bin && wget -Nc smxi.org/inxi && chmod +x inxi

sohail0399 · 10-09-2010, 01:59 AM

Try this link may be helpful for you,

i have also faced this issue on my HP probook with Fedora 13.

but know i solved it with the help of this below link

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=239922