unable to recognize wireless card
 

hey guys.

i just did a new install of slack 13.1 and i cant seem to be able to get my wireless card up.

my system is a new ish dell laptop,a vostro 3700

to be honest im not even really sure where to start here

if i ifconfig i only get my ethernet and my loopback and if i "iwconfig" i just get told that i have no wireless extensions.

yeah not sure what else to add,

any help would be great!
thanks

Hi trewtzu!

It seems like you're not the only one with this problem.
As far as I know, the DW1520(which I believe is the one you got on your laptop) isn't supported by any linux driver yet.

Cheers,
Jorek

Hi,

What is the output of 'lspci -vvn' from the 'cli' for the wireless portion?

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NOOO Jorek dont tell me that!!

i cant find a wireless portion so i just uploaded the whole thing to pastebin as its too large to submit here.

heres the link
http://pastebin.com/648y8tEF



thanks guys!

Hi,

My bad! It should have been 'lspci -vv' to id the subsystems with human readable ID;
With the 'lspci -vv';
You get everything, in that way you can identify subsystems visually. Otherwise a PCI ID database can be used: PCI ID database/repository

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