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Dell vostro 1510 wifi jinx continues

Asked by Bhavani Shankar

hi there...

I have a dell vostro 1510 and I have ubuntu 8.04 installed on it.. My problem over the past few days wifi is not working

CARD: BROADCOM 4310 rev (01)

and I have read various tutorials and installed the bcmwl5.inf file and configured it.. But it doesnt seem to pick up any IP address

Next now i have installed the latest windows driver along with ndiswrapper now wifi isnt getting detected.. (Situation is even worsened out)

Any Inputs are appreciated...

Thanks in advance

Bhavi.

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Best Thomas Kluyver (takluyver) said : 		#1

You may want to try with the b43 linux driver instead. That (mainly) works for me. It should automatically offer you the option in the restricted drivers manager (run "jockey"). Otherwise, broadly speaking, you'll need to disable ndiswrapper, load the firmware for b43, then load the b43 driver itself.

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#2

I understood but a bit more detail please

Thanks for replying..

Bhavi

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Thomas Kluyver (takluyver) said : 		#3

OK:
-Ndiswrapper is a way to use Windows wireless drivers in Linux
-b43 is a native Linux driver, although it still has to use some proprietary firmware for the wireless device.

It should, with a broadcom 43xx card, automatically offer you the option to use the b43 driver. Check your system tray for an icon that is called something like "Restricted drivers manager." If it's not there, you can load the restricted drivers manager with the command "jockey" at a command prompt. There should then be a box you can tick to use the drivers for the wireless device.

If it doesn't offer you that tickbox in jockey, you'll have to tell it to use that driver yourself. That's perfectly possible, but I won't type out the instructions unless the easy way isn't available.

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#4

OK !

I know that but i asked whether a reinstall was required or not and these instructions are for hardy right?

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Thomas Kluyver (takluyver) said : 		#5

A reinstall of what? The whole operating system? I hope not...

Yup, these instructions are for Hardy.

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) said : 		#6

Thanks Thomas K, that solved my question.

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Thomas Kluyver (takluyver) said : 		#7

Excellent, I'm glad.

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vav (vrgaikwad) said : 		#8

i hav dell vostro 1510
but i am unable to install xp on it after booting give msg as no hard drive found
but i am able to install linux on it

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vav (vrgaikwad) said : 		#9

and i dont know hav to use linux
my col gave (laptop) to me with linux dvd
if u can then pls help me
how to install xp on it

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Thomas Kluyver (takluyver) said : 		#10

Hi Vav

You may find it best to post this as a new question, but I'll have a shot at answering:
Linux uses a different disk format from Windows, and you can't install Windows on that format. You'll need to reformat the disk as NTFS or FAT. If the Linux DVD is a live disk (which means you can run Linux directly from the DVD), then boot from it and use a tool like gparted or qtparted to reformat the drive.

But since you're asking here, we do encourage you to give Linux a try. ;-) Do you know what distribution it is?

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vav (vrgaikwad) said : 		#11

no its not live disk i had install linux on laptop
and after installation it starting screen shows fedora9.0
can u tell me how to change partition format (file sys)i know for windows
but hav no idea for linux

On 9/30/08, Thomas K <email address hidden> wrote:
> Question #46196 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/46196
>
> Thomas K posted a new comment:
> Hi Vav
>
> You may find it best to post this as a new question, but I'll have a shot at
> answering:
> Linux uses a different disk format from Windows, and you can't install
> Windows on that format. You'll need to reformat the disk as NTFS or FAT. If
> the Linux DVD is a live disk (which means you can run Linux directly from
> the DVD), then boot from it and use a tool like gparted or qtparted to
> reformat the drive.
>
> But since you're asking here, we do encourage you to give Linux a try.
> ;-) Do you know what distribution it is?
>
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> You received this question notification because you are a direct
> subscriber of the question.
>

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Thomas Kluyver (takluyver) said : 		#12

You can't change the format of the partition that you're currently running the computer from, so you won't be able to do it from within the Linux installation you've got. You'll need a Live CD of some sort: you could download a normal Ubuntu installation disk, but if you're only going to use it to reformat your hard drive, there are live CDs specifically for that purpose, such as the GParted Live CD: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

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vav (vrgaikwad) said : 		#13

thx man

On 9/30/08, Thomas K <email address hidden> wrote:
> Question #46196 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/46196
>
> Thomas K posted a new comment:
> You can't change the format of the partition that you're currently
> running the computer from, so you won't be able to do it from within the
> Linux installation you've got. You'll need a Live CD of some sort: you
> could download a normal Ubuntu installation disk, but if you're only
> going to use it to reformat your hard drive, there are live CDs
> specifically for that purpose, such as the GParted Live CD:
> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
>
> --
> You received this question notification because you are a direct
> subscriber of the question.
>