Looking for driver/s forwireless adapter for Dell Inspiron 9200

Asked by Blue Knight

I install Ubuntu on my Dell Inspiron 9200 and cannot get the wireless adaptor to work. Wired works fine?
Any help????
T.Y.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C network; lsb_release -a; rfkill list

Thanks

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Blue Knight (bluekn-sod) said :
#2

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Distributor: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
Codename: natty
0: phy0: Wireless Lan
      Soft blocked: no
      Hard blocked: no

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Blue Knight (bluekn-sod) said :
#3

Thanks!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#4

The full output of the whole command please

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Blue Knight (bluekn-sod) said :
#5

Opps sorry bout that, don't know how I missed all this!

[sudo] password for bk:
*-network:0
description: Ethernet interface
product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
vendor: Broadcom Corportation
physical id: 0
bus info: pic@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
verision 02
serial" 00:11:43:5f:cb:41
size 100Mbit/s
capacity:100Mbit/s
width: 32bits
clock:33MHz
capabil;ities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=b44 driververision=2.0 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.101 latency=32 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbits
resources" irq:ll memory:faffe000-faffffff
*-network:1
describition: Network controller
product: BCM4309 802.11a/b/g
vendor: Broadcom coropration
physical: id3
bus info: pci@0000:02:03.0
verision: 03
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=43-pci-bridge latency=32
ressources: irq7 memory:faffa000-faffbfff
*-network DISABLED
descripition: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:0b:7d:13:db:41
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=b43 driver verision=2.6.38-8-generic firmware=N/A link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgNo LSB modules are available.
 Distributor ID: Ubuntu
 Distributor: Ubuntu 11.04
 Release: 11.04
 Codename: natty
 0: phy0: Wireless Lan
       Soft blocked: no
       Hard blocked: no
bk@bk - Inspiron-9200:~$ y

Thanks again!
Is there a way to copy and paste in the Linux termanial???

BK

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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Blue Knight (bluekn-sod) said :
#7

Problem solved: I installed 10.04 LTS and the wireless is now working
fine.

Thank you for all the help!

l8r,
Joe M.

On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 06:41 +0000, actionparsnip wrote:
> Your question #160110 on gnome-nettool in Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-nettool/+question/160110
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx
>

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Best Eliah Kagan (degeneracypressure) said :
#8

If the problem is solved to your satisfaction, please mark this question as Solved (you can do that at the question page: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-nettool/+question/160110).

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Blue Knight (bluekn-sod) said :
#9

Thanks Eliah Kagan, that solved my question.