Wireless Help!

Have you tried installing WICD and removing network manager? On my installs I have never managed to get network manager to work. So sometimes WICD is a helpIf you find WICD does make your system work please report a network manager bug.

Install WICD from the software centre using your cable. Then type the following in the terminal

sudo apt-get remove network-manager
sudo /etc/init.d/wicd restart

Hey that didn't work either. So i uninstalled WICD.. I have tried tons of things. It is weird because my little wifi light below my screen has yet to turn on.....Iknow my wireless card is supported i just cant get it to work..

- pls reinstall network manager; AFTER it is done reboot WITH a WIRED connection (ethernet cat5 cable with rj45 terminals) made between pc and your router

- after boot process complete do you have a net connection ?

- pls open a terminal and run commands as follows (in order listed)

lspci -vnn
sudo ifconfig
sudo iwconfig

- pls post the output of above cmds here. either me or somebody else will help you further.

Okay I connected the ethernet cable and typed in those commands .... I do have a connection via ethernet to modem

neu12@neu12-MM061:~$ lspci -vnn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27a0] (rev 03)
 Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01bd]
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
 Capabilities: <access denied>

00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express PCI Express Root Port [8086:27a1] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
 I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff
 Memory behind bridge: efd00000-efefffff
 Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d0000000-00000000dfffffff
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: pcieport
 Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01bd]
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44
 Memory at efffc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
 Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=0b, subordinate=0b, sec-latency=0
 I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
 Memory behind bridge: efc00000-efcfffff
 Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000040000000-00000000401fffff
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: pcieport
 Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 4 [8086:27d6] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=0c, subordinate=0d, sec-latency=0
 I/O behind bridge: 0000d000-0000dfff
 Memory behind bridge: efa00000-efbfffff
 Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000e0000000-00000000e01fffff
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: pcieport
 Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
 Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01bd]
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
 I/O ports at bf80 [size=32]
 Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
 Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01bd]
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
 I/O ports at bf60 [size=32]
 Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
 Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01bd]
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 22
 I/O ports at bf40 [size=32]
 Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
 Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01bd]
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
 I/O ports at bf20 [size=32]
 Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd

00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 01) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
 Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01bd]
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 20
 Memory at ffa80000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e1) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
 Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=32
 Memory behind bridge: ef900000-ef9fffff
 Capabilities: <access denied>

00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b9] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01bd]
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel modules: leds-ss4200, iTCO_wdt, intel-rng

00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller [8086:27c4] (rev 01) (prog-if 80 [Master])
 Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01bd]
 Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
 I/O ports at 01f0 [size=8]
 I/O ports at 03f4 [size=1]
 I/O ports at 0170 [size=8]
 I/O ports at 0374 [size=1]
 I/O ports at bfa0 [size=16]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: ata_piix

00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01bd]
 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 5
 I/O ports at 10c0 [size=32]
 Kernel modules: i2c-i801

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X1400 [1002:7145] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:2003]
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 43
 Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
 I/O ports at ee00 [size=256]
 Memory at efdf0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
 [virtual] Expansion ROM at efd00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: radeon
 Kernel modules: radeon

03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX [14e4:170c] (rev 02)
 Subsystem: Dell Inspiron 6400 [1028:01af]
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17
 Memory at ef9fe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: b44
 Kernel modules: b44

03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832] (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
 Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01bd]
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 19
 Memory at ef9fd800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci
 Kernel modules: firewire-ohci

03:01.1 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (rev 19) (prog-if 01)
 Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01bd]
 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 18
 Memory at ef9fd400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci
 Kernel modules: sdhci-pci

03:01.2 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [1180:0592] (rev 0a)
 Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01bd]
 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
 Memory at ef9fd600 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
 Capabilities: <access denied>

03:01.3 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller [1180:0852] (rev 05)
 Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01bd]
 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 18
 Memory at ef9fd700 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: r852
 Kernel modules: r852

0b:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)
 Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:0007]
 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
 Memory at efcfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
 Kernel modules: wl, ssb

neu12@neu12-MM061:~$ sudo ifconfig
[sudo] password for neu12:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:b9:54:8b:89
          inet addr:192.168.0.12 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::219:b9ff:fe54:8b89/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:3273 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2989 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:3677892 (3.6 MB) TX bytes:434345 (434.3 KB)
          Interrupt:17

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:960 (960.0 B) TX bytes:960 (960.0 B)

neu12@neu12-MM061:~$ sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

broadcom wifi interface is not there. proper drivers should b installed

first url should take care/resolve your problem. second url is just interesting reading - it also refers to first url that sorted out the problem for other users (#30, 31 ...)

http://computerandu.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/how-to-solve-no-wireless-networks-in-ubuntu-11-04/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1748245&page=3

Okay so on the first url i did what it told me to do and the Ubuntu software center popped up and said..." A later version is already installed" the wireless still did not work and the button for INSTALL was shaded out so i could not click on it...... Then i tried the alternate method number 2 and that did not work either.....I am pretty sure i did everything right .........

before anything else pls consult and see if

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1745681&page=3

is applicable to dell 1505 too ; it has to do with alt-F2 not being mapped on dell's 1501 and quite possible with1505. see if after removing and blacklisting the module the wifi works. if it does not then

there is a driver conflict/s somewhere; pay special attention to

.......
open the ‘Synaptic Package Manager‘ and search for ‘bcm’
uninstall the ‘bcm-kernel-source‘ package
make sure that the ‘firmware-b43-installer‘ and the ‘b43-fwcutter‘ packages are installed

type into terminal:

cat /etc/modprobe.d/* | egrep '8180|acx|at76|ath|b43|bcm|CX|eth|ipw|irmware|isl|lbtf|orinoco|ndiswrapper|NPE|p54|prism|rtl|rt2|rt3|rt6|rt7|witch|wl'

(you may want to copy this) and see if the term ‘blacklist bcm43xx‘ is there
if it is, then type cd /etc/modprobe.d/ and then sudo gedit blacklist.confput a # in front of the line: blacklist bcm43xxthen save the file (I was getting error messages in the terminal about not being able to save, but it actually did save properly).
........

instructions as shown on url 1 above. ALSO pay attention to ALL user feedback on url 1 ; they are v specific and solved this issue for quite a few users.

okay that didn't work either however I think it does actually have something to do with my keys nto being mapped...I followed your Url you most recently sent me but I didn't really understand what they wanted me to do. I tried but I dont thikn i did it right.

Hey I got it Thanks so much!!!