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Wifi does not switch on for dell 1510 wifi card, Ubuntu 9.10

Asked by iceman8958

I am new to linux. i've used Ubuntu 8.10 for a few days. my wifi card works fine on that.
When i upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10, Wifi stopped working.
The wifi indicator led on my laptop does not even turn on, and in the network connection option, there is no option of wireless, only wired

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Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#1

Hi,

Please first connect your network card to the wireless router using an ethernet cable (also known as a LAN cable).

In order to gather essential troubleshooting information about your wireless card, please follow this procedure:

Step 1: Open Terminal from "Applications->Accessories->Terminal"

Step 2: Please copy-paste the following command from the https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu website in Firefox into the Linux Terminal. Do NOT copy-paste from the Email message into the Terminal, as that will only copy PART of the command. The command STARTS with the word sudo and ENDS with the word restart. So please copy-paste the ENTIRE command below from Firefox into a Terminal, press <enter>, then enter password when sudo asks for password, then press enter again.

sudo lshw -C network; sudo iwlist scanning; cat /etc/network/interfaces; cat /etc/lsb-release; lspci -nn; lsusb; sudo lshw -short; uname -a; dmesg | grep ound; dmesg | grep b43; dmesg | grep wl; dmesg | grep witch; iwconfig; grep b43 /etc/modprobe.d/*; grep wl /etc/modprobe.d/*; sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Step 3: Please post results (copy/paste terminal output) on this thread

Regards,

Mark

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iceman8958 (iceman8958) said : 		#2

Dear Mark,
Thank you for you help. My current laptop is getting replaced by another laptop, which has a different wifi card. so i'll consider the issue solved.
thank you.