Hey there,
First of all, I must say the pleasure I had installing Kubuntu Feisty Fawn on my Dell Inspiron 640m
Almost everything worked out of the box. I simply had to apt-get 915resolution to tune the video settings, but that was so easy...
I had been trying to get FreeBSD to work on that same machine, and it took me two weeks just to startx...
So you guys at (K)Ubuntu are doing a great job.
Now I have a problem : when I ordered my laptop, I wasn't sure that I would use an open-source OS, so I didn't check the compatibility of the wireless card. I picked the "Dell Wireless 1500 draft 802.11n" (pci id : 14e4:4328).
That was not very smart...
The lspci output for the card
After reading the forums and all, and trying both bcm43xx-fwcutter as advised on http://market.inattendu.org/article.php3?id_article=49 (french), and ndiswrapper with the driver from Dell website (r151520), I reckon this card is a piece of ... (I should have read "draft" as a hint...)
Here come the questions :
1. Has anyone tried this card and made it work (under Ubuntu FF) ? Maybe I'm not using the right driver, or there's something I should check before ndis, or whatever... On Dell laptops, there's something about turning the wifi device on, though I don't remember doing such thing... (The "Fn"+"F2" key that's supposed to do the trick, actually turns BlueTooth on and off)
2. I read on Ubuntu WiFI/ndiswrapper docs that it wouldn't work with a Desktop CD install - should I try with the alternate CD (I have some idea on what the answer might be ;-))
3. If I go for changing my card, what model would you advise me ? And will I have to take the current card off my computer ? This is my first laptop.
Well, thank you very much anyway for this beautiful system. I've tried several Linux (and even FreeBSD as I said) on different boxes but I often had to give up because I could not setup all the hardware correctly, and here you come with this wonderful Kubuntu. I'm really amazed.
Thanks for your answers...
E. Mie
First of all, I must say the pleasure I had installing Kubuntu Feisty Fawn on my Dell Inspiron 640m
Almost everything worked out of the box. I simply had to apt-get 915resolution to tune the video settings, but that was so easy...
I had been trying to get FreeBSD to work on that same machine, and it took me two weeks just to startx...
So you guys at (K)Ubuntu are doing a great job.
Now I have a problem : when I ordered my laptop, I wasn't sure that I would use an open-source OS, so I didn't check the compatibility of the wireless card. I picked the "Dell Wireless 1500 draft 802.11n" (pci id : 14e4:4328).
That was not very smart...
The lspci output for the card
Code:
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Unknown device 4328 (rev 01) Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0009 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 4 Memory at efdfc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=1M] Capabilities: <access denied>
Here come the questions :
1. Has anyone tried this card and made it work (under Ubuntu FF) ? Maybe I'm not using the right driver, or there's something I should check before ndis, or whatever... On Dell laptops, there's something about turning the wifi device on, though I don't remember doing such thing... (The "Fn"+"F2" key that's supposed to do the trick, actually turns BlueTooth on and off)
2. I read on Ubuntu WiFI/ndiswrapper docs that it wouldn't work with a Desktop CD install - should I try with the alternate CD (I have some idea on what the answer might be ;-))
3. If I go for changing my card, what model would you advise me ? And will I have to take the current card off my computer ? This is my first laptop.
Well, thank you very much anyway for this beautiful system. I've tried several Linux (and even FreeBSD as I said) on different boxes but I often had to give up because I could not setup all the hardware correctly, and here you come with this wonderful Kubuntu. I'm really amazed.
Thanks for your answers...
E. Mie
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