How to make my Dell 1390 wlan minicard work
I have a dell laptop with at dell wireless 1390 wlan mini-card driver, when I installed Ubuntu side by side with Win7 I assume it was missing a wireless driver since that's what it said. Later on I reinstalled completely to ubuntu, and connected my laptop to a internet cable assuming it will get all the drivers from ubuntu servers/depositories.
So the problem now is that in the networking tab I dont even see a wireless connection option, when I go to System Settings -> Additional drivers, it shows me that im using Broadcom STA proprietary wireless driver. But I still don't see my Wireless connection.
I have looked for tutorials but they are mostly too old.
Can someone please provide me with a step by step guide or some guidance on how to fix this issue, or give me a link to a place where it's shown how to fix it.
The information that was required
roberts@roberts-Latitude-D630:~$ sudo lshw -class network
[sudo] password for roberts:
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:fe8fc000-fe8fffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: NetXtreme BCM5755M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:1c:23:29:51:ed
size: 1Gbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.119 duplex=full firmware=5755m-v3.29 ip=192.168.0.6 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=1Gbit/s
resources: irq:44 memory:fe7f0000-fe7fffff
AND
roberts@roberts-Latitude-D630:~$ rfkill list all
1: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
roberts@roberts-Latitude-D630:~$
Using the Additional Drivers window deactivate the STA driver.
Connect you D630 via a wired connection.
Install the following packages:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
sudo apt-get remove bcmwl-kernel-source
reboot
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