djluvsgod

I'm on a Dell Inspiron 5100 with xubuntu, I am using a Dell wireless 1350 card. I have the driver installed and it is recognized, the lights flash to show the card is interacting with the wireless signal, but when I use Knetworkmanager to try and enable the connection, it just gets stuck at configuring device.

To install I had troubles with the native driver on xubuntu, knowing I had a driver that would work for sure, I just deleted it and installed the one I had. I did have minimal success at one point, but then it just stopped working. Sorry I do not know what was changed now that it is not working.

DJ

waterhead

When you say that you have the driver installed, what driver would that be? I use a Dell Inspiron 1150 laptop with a 1350 wireless, but they could put that name on anything.

To determine the chipset of the card, enter this as root, and post the results.

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djluvsgod

Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)


I got the driver from the ndiswrapper site

waterhead

That is exactly what I have on my Dell laptop.

There is a "native" Linux driver that automatically loads, called bcm43xx. It could be conflicting with NDISwrapper. You can check to see if it is loaded with this.
And remove it with this.
You may need to remove and reload the NDISwrapper module after this.
If this was the problem, you need to prevent the bcm43xx module from loading. There should be a file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. Add this to the bottom of the file.
There also is a newer version of the driver named b43. I don't know if it is included in any distros yet, but be aware of it.

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djluvsgod

I have already done such things, and bcm43xx is on the blacklist. Like I said the card did work for several minutes, but then I must have changed something in the configuration because now it doesn't. Sorry to be ignorant of what I have done, but what are some things I should look at when trying to configure the device. Mind you the driver is not a problem.

waterhead

Can you use any of the terminal commands? Try these out:

# sudo ifconfig
# sudo iwconfig wlan0 (unless it is eth1 or something else)
# sudo ifup wlan0
# sudo ifup-dhcp wlan0

There is also ifstatus ifstatus-dhcp ifprobe ifrenew ifrenew-dhcp. You may need to specify the folder when using these commands:
# sudo /sbin/ifconfig

Some of my commands are located in the /usr/sbin/ folder. I don't know where they are in xubuntu, so a search should find them.

You may need to disable the NetworkManager to use these commands.

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djluvsgod

Using the program wifi radar I somehow forced the card to ask for an ip address or something. so now my browser works fine, but Gaim doesn't connect, and ideas?

waterhead

Try disabling the firewall, if it's enabled.

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djluvsgod

Unless ubuntu has one running the background, I'm almost positive it doesn't, there isn't one running.

waterhead

Most distros will enable a firewall by default.

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