Dell Studio 1737 WiFi Problem!

[davey1694]

Hi, I recently installed Linux Mint 10 on my laptop well my mate did but never mind that basically an Ethernet works but WiFi doesn't which is what I use as my router is downstairs so it's a big problem. I have Windows 7 installed also and the WiFi works on that I'm sure it's to do with the driver I am severely new to Linux so if you could help keep that in mind I'm not an idiot with computers just Linux.

I was going to add pictures but I need to have 15 posts or more and if I upload them as attachments they're to small so sorry

If you can help thanks.

[zenwalker]

Welcome!

One may try, at the terminal,

 sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome 
  

To find codified vendor and card info

 iwconfig |grep Bit 
  

and come back with this info (paste it here) -- someone will help!

Best wishes!

[davey1694]

Ok so this is what I typed and got back

 sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome
[sudo]  password for david:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependancy tree
Reading state information... Done
network-manager-gnome is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
   fakeroot dkms patch
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded. 
  

I then typed your second code

 iwconfig  |grep Bit
lo                     no wireless extensions.
 
eth0                 no wireless extensions 
  

Thanks.

[reed9]

We need to know the chipset of the card. Post the output of

lspci -vnn | grep -a5 -i net

[davey1694]

lscpi -vnn | grep -a5 -i net
    Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 100
    Memory at c0200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
    I/O ports at 1c00 [size=32]
    Kernel modules: i2c-i801
    

04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY
  [14e4=4315  (rev01)
                 Subsystem Dell wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card  [1028:000c]
                 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, Latency 0, IRQ 17
                 Memory at f8000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16k]
                 Capabilities: <access denied>
                 Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
                 Kernel modules: ssb

08:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation Netlink BCM5784M Gigabit
Ethernet PCIe [14e4:1698] (rev10)
           Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:02a0]
           Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 47
           Memory at fc500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64k]
           Capabilities: <access denied>
           kernel driver in use: tg3

That took ages to type lol hope this helps thanks

[reed9]

Oh gosh, I didn't mean for you to type it out! But it does help.

You need to install the Broadcom STA drivers. Easiest is if you can hook up to an ethernet connection briefly, otherwise, they're on the installation CD. Instructions for both here.

[sudhajeeva]

Thanks for sharing information. Accidentally cat'ing a binary file causes the all the characters you type next to show up as odd symbols.