Windows Wireless Driver problem

Hi,

I'm running Zorin 12 Lite on an ancient Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop.

Yesterday I used the Windows Wireless Drivers tool to install the Windows driver that I downloaded off the Dell website, and success! It worked a treat - wifi working.

When i booted up the laptop today, the wifi is no longer working. My other laptop connects to it fine so i know there is no problem with the modem. The driver that i installed yesterday appears to be there when i open Windows Wireless Drivers, and i've tried uninstalling and reinstalling it, to no effect.

Anyone got any ideas? Thanks very much

You may have a broadcast chips etc in there. Try the solution here:

http://linuxg.net/how-to-fix-broadcom-b ... inux-mint/

hi, do you get internet connected when using an ethernet cable? I would do that and take it from there
good luck

@zorinantwerp
I am using ethernet cable at present, which works fine, but for various reasons i would really like to get the wifi working.

@Swarfendor437
Thanks for the link, i followed the instructions to remove the bcmwl driver, but the subsequent step to install linux-firmware-nonfree didn't work - I got the "Unable to locate package" message. I may be wrong but I looked into this and it seems that there's no up-to-date version of linux-firmware-nonfree (except for Debian).

So... any other suggestions? thanks very much

Hi, Sorry to hear that - please take a gander at this article and let us know if anything from it helped (or otherwise).

https://grenangen.se/node/86