Ubuntu 10.04 won't connect to Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN MiniCard
 

Hi, I have used OpenSuse linux 64bit now for a few years on my desktop system. I have never had to load any drivers or anything like that. I have a new laptop now and am having trouble with the wireless. I am wanting to run Ubuntu 10.04 64bit on my laptop. I have not been able to get the wireless to work with Suse or Ubuntu. This is the card that is in my laptop.. Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN MiniCard.. Thank You Very much :)

Hi Smerpette, Welcome to LQ. I believe that card has a Broadcom chip, but let's be sure. Please post the output from the following.

Good luck. ;-)

sudo lspci -v results

sudo lspci -v results
 

sudo lspci -v results


00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f8
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information <?>
Kernel modules: intel-agp

00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 0c)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
Memory behind bridge: f2000000-f6efffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000e0000000-00000000efffffff
Capabilities: [88] Subsystem: Dell Device 01f8
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable+
Capabilities: [a0] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
Capabilities: [140] Root Complex Link <?>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f8
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
I/O ports at 6f20 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f8
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
I/O ports at 6f00 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) (prog-if 20)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f8
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
Memory at fed1c400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Debug port: BAR=1 offset=00a0
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f8
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
Memory at f6ffc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link <?>
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=0b, subordinate=0b, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
Memory behind bridge: f0200000-f03fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f0400000-00000000f05fffff
Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable+
Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Dell Device 01f8
Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
Capabilities: [180] Root Complex Link <?>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=0c, subordinate=0c, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00003000-00003fff
Memory behind bridge: f1f00000-f1ffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f0600000-00000000f07fffff
Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable+
Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Dell Device 01f8
Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
Capabilities: [180] Root Complex Link <?>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=0d, subordinate=0e, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 0000c000-0000cfff
Memory behind bridge: f1c00000-f1efffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f0000000-00000000f01fffff
Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable+
Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Dell Device 01f8
Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
Capabilities: [180] Root Complex Link <?>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 02)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=09, subordinate=09, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00004000-00004fff
Memory behind bridge: f1b00000-f1bfffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f0800000-00000000f09fffff
Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable+
Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Dell Device 01f8
Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
Capabilities: [180] Root Complex Link <?>
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f8
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
I/O ports at 6f80 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f8
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
I/O ports at 6f60 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f8
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
I/O ports at 6f40 [size=32]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) (prog-if 20)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f8
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
Memory at fed1c000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Debug port: BAR=1 offset=00a0
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f2) (prog-if 01)
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=32
Memory behind bridge: f1a00000-f1afffff
Capabilities: [50] Subsystem: Dell Device 01f8

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HBM (ICH8M-E) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f8
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information <?>
Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f8
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
I/O ports at 6fa0 [size=16]
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix

00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 8f [Master SecP SecO PriP PriO])
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f8
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
I/O ports at 6eb0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 6eb8 [size=4]
I/O ports at 6ec0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 6ec8 [size=4]
I/O ports at 6ee0 [size=16]
I/O ports at eff0 [size=16]
Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3
Kernel driver in use: ata_piix

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f8
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 3
Memory at f6ffbf00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
I/O ports at 10c0 [size=32]
Kernel modules: i2c-i801

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Quadro FX 1600M (rev a1)
Subsystem: Dell Device 019b
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at f5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at f2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at df00 [size=128]
Expansion ROM at f6e00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [68] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?>
Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information <?>
Kernel driver in use: nouveau
Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau

03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05) (prog-if 10)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f8
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
Memory at f1aff800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: ohci1394
Kernel modules: firewire-ohci, ohci1394

03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22) (prog-if 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f8
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
Memory at f1aff500 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci
Kernel modules: sdhci-pci

03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f8
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
Memory at f1aff600 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f8
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
Memory at f1aff700 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2

09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5756ME Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
Subsystem: Dell Device 01f8
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 29
Memory at f1bf0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at <ignored> [disabled]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [50] Vital Product Data <?>
Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information <?>
Capabilities: [e8] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable+
Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?>
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel <?>
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 50-3d-30-fe-ff-23-1c-00
Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>
Kernel driver in use: tg3
Kernel modules: tg3

0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Device 0007
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at f1ffc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [d0] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?>
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel <?>
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: ssb

lsmod results
 

Module Size Used by
binfmt_misc 7960 1
ppdev 6375 0
snd_hda_codec_idt 61418 1
fbcon 39270 71
tileblit 2487 1 fbcon
font 8053 1 fbcon
snd_hda_intel 25645 2
bitblit 5811 1 fbcon
snd_hda_codec 85727 2 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
softcursor 1565 1 bitblit
snd_hwdep 6924 1 snd_hda_codec
vga16fb 12757 0
snd_pcm_oss 41394 0
vgastate 9857 1 vga16fb
snd_mixer_oss 16299 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 87850 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
joydev 11072 0
snd_seq_dummy 1782 0
snd_seq_oss 31219 0
snd_seq_midi 5829 0
snd_rawmidi 23388 1 snd_seq_midi
arc4 1473 2
snd_seq_midi_event 7267 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 57417 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 23553 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 6824 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
psmouse 64608 0
nouveau 515131 2
ttm 60815 1 nouveau
serio_raw 4918 0
drm_kms_helper 30742 1 nouveau
snd 70978 16 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_os s,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 8052 1 snd
intel_agp 29225 0
drm 198770 4 nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper
sdhci_pci 6700 0
sdhci 17928 1 sdhci_pci
b43 174953 0
mac80211 238128 1 b43
cfg80211 148386 2 b43,mac80211
snd_page_alloc 8500 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
i2c_algo_bit 6024 1 nouveau
dell_wmi 2177 0
lp 9336 0
parport 37160 2 ppdev,lp
led_class 3732 2 sdhci,b43
video 20623 0
output 2503 1 video
dell_laptop 7941 0
dcdbas 6886 1 dell_laptop
ohci1394 30260 0
ieee1394 94675 1 ohci1394
tg3 122350 0
ssb 43517 1 b43

You'll need to install the b43-fwcutter package to get the firmware loaded.

You can find more information here.

Linux Wireless B43

Good luck. ;-)

Firewall In Ubuntu 10.04
 

Hello Peacedog.... You helped me with my wireless Internet. I am now needing help with the firewall. I have tried to mess with a few firewall tools like firestarter and shorewall in Ubuntu 10.04. I do not understand any of it. I have also done research and still no concept of understanding on my end.

I am still very used to using OpenSuse. I wanted to try out ubuntu so that I further my knowledge with software. I enjoy using ubuntu and I've the rest of the set up to my liking but I pretty sure that I may need a firewall.

If there is not a need for a firewall while using ubuntu please let me know and I will keep the system I am using the way it is currently.

There is an Ubuntu iptables how to here.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/IptablesHowTo

There is firestarter documentation here.

http://www.fs-security.com/docs.php

If you're behind a router and haven't opened up any additional services you are relatively safe, however, there is no substitute for learning security.

Good luck. ;-)