Inspiron 1545 drivers

Unlike Windows, Linux comes with lots of "drivers" built into the kernel. In most cases, your hardware should work straight away.

Have you checked if the wireless (and the other stuff) is working?

If the wireless is not working, then we would need to know some details - specifically the chipset used on your wireless.

I will start off with a command line request for you to try -

Go to Applications > Accessories and then select Terminal in there. Once the terminal opens (it looks like the old fashioned DOS type command line if you remember that), then type in -

lspci

and press enter.

Post the resulting output here so we can identify the wireless chipset.

We may well need to do some other checks to see what - if any - modules (drivers if you prefer) are loaded.

Again, from the terminal, type in

lsmod

and press enter. Again, post the output here.

Cheers,

Mark

At a guess, you will have a Broadcom bcm43xx chipset there - which should have a driver available. Hopefully, the lsmod command will show that is loaded.

Hi songofsongs,

Would you to give us more information about your wireless card by running this command from your terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal?
$ lspci -vnn | grep Network

It would be helpful to know the type of your wireless card. Cheers..

-Luky-