[sf-lug] wifi on dell: system stats

[John Lowry]

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

The Broadcom card in the laptop has support in the kernel, it just needs
the binary firmware to be loaded. It has been a while since I have had
to deal with these cards, I avoid them like the plague, but they do work
with Linux.

jim wrote:
>    still no luck trying to get wifi working on a 
> dell inspiron 1545 running ubuntu 9.04 
>    current fallback plan is to reinstall ubuntu 
> 9.10 and hope and see. 
> 
> 
> Dell Inspiron 1545 Model PP41L
> RAM 2.9GB 
> Storage 156.8GB 
> 
> dmesg output shows 
> intel CPU T4200 2GHz dual core 
> agpgart-intel intel mobile intel GM45 ExpressChipset 
> Broadcom BCM4315 Wireless Controller 5.10.91.9 
> 
> uname -a output shows 
> kernel 2.6.28-15 
> #52-Ubuntu SMP 9.04 
> 
> lsmod output shows nothing for networking 
> 
> lspci output shows 
> Ethernet controller: Marvell 88E8040 PCI-E Fast rev 13 
> Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g rev 01 
> 
> 
> 
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