Wired & Wireless networking interfering on Dell Inspiron 1300 (Slackware 13)

spudgunner · 12-18-2009, 07:29 AM

I was reading through the readme file, and I noticed that it said you have to disable ssb in order for this to work, which I think is a problem because ssb is needed by b44, which is needed to make my wired network card work. However, I'll try it and see how it goes.

spudgunner · 12-22-2009, 09:16 AM

So I've tried out all the stuff I've downloaded and as I suspected, doing this disables the wired network connection... if there's any more ideas out there, it'd be appreciated, but it doesn't look promising for me

arubin · 12-23-2009, 03:05 AM

Last Sunday I got wireless networking on a Dell Inspiron 1501. I have not tried wired networking but eth0 does show up. I have not been using ndiwrapper but:

installed b43-fwcutter and b43-firmware from slackbuilds.

Then

b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/ b43-fwcutter/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o

reboot and wireless was working with the b43 driver