HOWTO: Dell Inspiron E1505 Wireless (Broadcom 1390 WLAN)

[niedzielski]

I'm on a Dell E1705 with 'Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card' on Ubuntu Karmic Koala. This HOWTO worked for me with a couple distinctions:

I used Dell_multi-device_A17_R174291.exe.
After running through the HOWTO, from System -> Admin -> Hardware Drivers I activated Broadcom STA wireless driver. My WiFi light turned on and I rebooted.

[team420]

Post removed for stupidity....lol

[team420]

I am having a problem with the first suggestion tho... when I get to "sudo apt-get install build-essential"... I get this message....

"Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
dpkg-dev fakeroot g++ g++-4.4 libstdc++6-4.4-dev patch
Suggested packages:
debian-keyring debian-maintainers g++-multilib g++-4.4-multilib gcc-4.4-doc
libstdc++6-4.4-dbg libstdc++6-4.4-doc diff-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
build-essential dpkg-dev fakeroot g++ g++-4.4 libstdc++6-4.4-dev patch
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/6,999kB of archives.
After this operation, 23.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Media change: please insert the disc labeled
'Ubuntu 9.10 _Karmic Koala_ - Release i386 (20091028.5)'
in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter"

I am very new to ubuntu, and linux in general, and have asked a few people who know more than me, and they say they have never seen that before? I dont have an install cd...I installed from usb, so do I need to burn a disk, or can I change it to ask for usb? Or am I screwed, and better off sticking with microshit?

*EDIT* sorry left out the important details....I'm on a dell inspiron 6400 intel core duo, 1gb ram, 1390 dell wireless card...also runnin a dual boot setup, windows and ubuntu side by side. Thanks for any advice.

[RoninVeracity]

This isn't very useful. The first instruction is to download packages, but without having wireless in the first place that's a little impossible.

[bircoe]

You are joking aren't you?

There are other means to get network access than wireless, if your wireless adapter is not working (which this guide is aimed at solving) then you should be using an ethernet cable between your modem/router and your notebook... that should be pretty obvious.

[MatRHorn]

Is the a way I can do this without any form of internet connection. The connection I have access to is wirelss, but obviously Ubuntu does not recognize my wireless card. I have the same Broadcom 1390 mini-card.

[xthumbsx]

Just tried this with Version 10.04 Beta (Lucid Lynx) and it worked with the following changes:
-My driver per the Dell website was R174291.exe
-The location and current version of the ndiswrapper was "http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndiswrapper/files/stable/1.56/ndiswrapper-1.56.tar.gz/download"

[theotherotherguy]

removed, better thread for issue exists

[dosa99]

Hi every one
This is my first post in this forum at all.
I'm a new user of Ubuntu, and I want to tell you the result of using this way .
First of all my PC is Dell inspiron 1525 . now I'm on Ubuntu 10.4 ,
At the first time The OS did not recognize the Wireless Device .
I tied this way and it was Great .... it works 100%
I did the following steps :
the first 7 codes and then Reboot..... then I found the system recognize the device and I activated the driver directly ...download .... and thats it ....

Thanks for your help

[JustinPT]

Hi everyone,

I just installed ubuntu and was trying to follow this, got ndiswrapper 1.56 from xthumbsx's url, but when I try to uncompress it using that next command, I get a message that it's "Not a directory". How can I fix this?

Thanks in advance.
Justin