how to enable wifi on Dell Studio 1555?
Hi everybody! here is my problem (it is my first time installing any linux myself, so please be kind to me).
I have installed Slack 13.37 on my Dell Studio 1555 Laptop. The ethernet card is working fine, but the Wi-Fi is not. In order to resolve the problem I have done the following. First of all I typed % ifconfig -a and got Quote:
Then I typed % lspci -v and got a lot of info including following Quote:
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% /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless so that it reads this newly edited file /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless.conf and make wireless work. But it tells me Quote:
% /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 wlan0_start and get the response Quote:
So, the question is do I use the correct ESSID name or doing some stipid mistake?? Thanks for reading this huge post. |
You need the Broadcom firmware and related stuff. I had similar thread regarding Slackware Current and got lots of useful replies. Rather than repeat a lot of stuff, I'll just point you to that.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...urrent-926077/ |
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In my case the F3 button is not a problem (I can reproduce your "RF kill" if I want to). So my problem seems to be a little different: it looks like I am using a wrong ESSID name... or not? How did you set up these values: ESSID? KEY? did you also copy them from the back of your wireless modem? |
Your device is supported by the broadcom-sta package that you can obtain at Slackbuilds.org. http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.../broadcom-sta/
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Would install wicd solve your problem? i know if anything regarding wifi after fress install, wicd will solve it for you. that was what happened to me.
From the install CD, Extra folder look for wicd.copy the wicd txz file to root, then run installpkg. Hope this can help. |
(grin) Well, I didn't point you there for my posts, but no, that wasn't the actual problem. That was the icing. I can assure that I had pounded the pulse out of the F3 before I posted here at LQ.
The actual problem was pointed out by this post. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...7/#post4587736 I had installed broadcom-sta, then the b43-fwcutter, but I had not also installed b43-firmware. I needed all three. I had assumed that the broadcom-sta (or alternatively the broadcom-wl) included the firmware, but the firmware was in a separate package. At least, that's how I reconstruct the crime. What I do know for sure it that it's been sound as a rock ever since. |
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