zorin 7 OS wirless not working on dell 1521 need some help to figure this out

rickricky6912 · 11-15-2013, 09:08 PM

I have a dell inspiron 1521 and I Installed Zorin 7 OS 32 bit and the wireless is not working. The computer had vista on it before but i wiped it out and installed Zorin 7. I need some help getting the wifi working on this Laptop. I have a wired connection but no wireless.

nini09 · 11-20-2013, 02:27 PM

Do you install driver for WiFi? What's the wireless card?

rickricky6912 · 11-30-2013, 04:36 PM

broadcom 4311

nini09 · 12-02-2013, 02:26 PM

You can use lsmod command to check whether following module have been loaded.

2: Insmod the driver.

Most newer systems use lib80211 while others use ieee80211_crypt_tkip. See which one works for
your system.

# modprobe lib80211
or
# modprobe ieee80211_crypt_tkip

If your using the cfg80211 version of the driver, then cfg80211 needs to be
loaded:

# modprobe cfg80211

Then:
# insmod wl.ko