DELL WIRELESS 1520 WIRELESS-N WLAN MINI-CARD LINUX DRIVER DOWNLOAD

Home Questions Tags Users Unanswered. Post Your Answer Discard By clicking "Post Your Answer", you acknowledge that you have read our updated terms of service , privacy policy and cookie policy , and that your continued use of the website is subject to these policies. My problem appears to be that in a machine with both a BCM43xx wireless and BCM44xx wired connection, the driver for the wired connection requires the generic 'ssb' module, which grabs the resources needed by both, expecting the final drivers to cooperate with it? By clicking "Post Your Answer", you acknowledge that you have read our updated terms of service , privacy policy and cookie policy , and that your continued use of the website is subject to these policies. Not what I wanted to hear, but that's not your fault. It is easy to force a device to load another driver, however it's very difficult and usually impossible to get the wrong driver to actually operate and connect. Also a lsmod grep "wlan" search comes up with nothing

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The solution was to remove the incorrect driver causing the network conflict which I found here: I had no issue with this on my last laptop, however airmon-ng is reporting that interface eth1 has an unknown chipset.

A workaround of the same general kind as the one proposed in comment 4 of that bug would presumably have worked for me, but simpler was to switch to using the 'b43' driver rather than 'wl'. Not what I wanted to hear, but that's not your fault. After installing the Broadcom STA driver from the Proprietary drivers selection I was able to connect to my wireless network, delp the connection repeatedly drops.

I am running Ubuntu Home Questions Tags Users Unanswered. Are you sure that you activated your Broadcom STA driver?. The 3 steps in answer 2 worked for me on my Dell Inspiron similar to the for Ubuntu Jules In Network Indicator menu mmini-card on edit connections and see if it's listed there?

Again, Thanks in advance. During installation, Ubuntu Don't know if you're still looking for an answer but the answer here So what can I do to do it anyway?

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Dell Wireless 1520 (DW1520)

No, the wireless section of the connection editing dialog is empty. Jules 1 2 Sign up using Email and Password. Let's see what the kernel has to say about it: Ask Ubuntu works best with JavaScript enabled.

I have no options for wireless networks in the networks menu, only for my wired network.

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I believe the card is being incorrectly detected by the kernel because iwlist scan reports eth1 as not supporting scanning, and iwconfig reports that eth1 has no wireless extensions Unfortunately, broadcom's 'wl' driver which is the driver I had installed does not cooperate in the way it expects; only the open-source 'b43' driver is capable of doing this. I have a laptop whose interface is wlan0 and another which is eth1. I had same problems with Broadcom driver on Lucid and Maverick.

How to make my Dell wlan minicard work This reminds me of one of my favorite questions on this forum which I've seen many times.

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As for other reasons for the DCs, I have another ubuntu install on my desktop, with an a card using ath9k drivers, and it has no issue at all with the same network I'm sure they are incorrect. After some investigation, I found that the broadcom drivers aren't actually being loaded properly Here are the important commands It is easy to force a device to load another driver, however it's very difficult and usually impossible to get the wrong wireleas to actually operate and connect.

Any ideas what I need to do to get this working? Hi, welcome to AskUbuntu and thanks for your contribution.