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    Dell d620 laptop help

    I just installed kubuntu 9.04 couple of days ago, but I can never get a wireless signal for my laptop. Everything is enabled and the hardware is Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN MiniCard. And How am I suppose to install the driver if its not supported.

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    Re: Dell d620 laptop help

    Originally posted by jizzkid
    I just installed kubuntu 9.04 couple of days ago, but I can never get a wireless signal for my laptop. Everything is enabled and the hardware is Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN MiniCard. And How am I suppose to install the driver if its not supported.
    do you have net on the lappey............thrue a hardwire conection?

    I ask becose you may nead to post the output of severall comands to get this worked out.

    O and make shure it dosent have a switch to turn it on and off. 2 of mine do and having the switch off once had me in fits for a few minuts.

    VINNY
    i7 4core HT 8MB L3 2.9GHz
    16GB RAM
    Nvidia GTX 860M 4GB RAM 1152 cuda cores

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      Re: Dell d620 laptop help

      You may also want to try switching from the default Network Manager plasmoid to wicd.

      Code:
      sudo aptitude install wicd
      I had a lot of issues with Network Manager and it all disappeared when I switched to wicd. Obviously you will need to hard wire to the net to try this.
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        Re: Dell d620 laptop help

        You should be able to get things worked out. Before I retired the last PC I was given was a Dell Latitude D620. I dual booted with it and did all of my Qt development work on the Linux side, which was running PCLinuxOS 2007 at the time. Admittedly, I was connected to the Internet through a proxy on our LAN, but if you can download the wicd deb package onto a USB stick and then copy it to the D620 using sudo "dpkg -i packagename" should get it installed. From the machine you download it to, be sure to do a simulate install of wicd and make sure you download all the dependencies too. "sudo apt-get install --simulate wicd"
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