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Wake up a Dell wireless 1390 Mini Card Zorin 12.3

zoro

Thu Apr 19, 2018 2:51:15 am

I just loaded Zorin OS 12.3 lite 32bit on a Dell Inspiron E1505. I installed the windows driver file bcmwl5.inf for the card but I can't get the wifi to wake up. I would apprecaite any suggestions to get it working.
$ lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX [14e4:170c] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Inspiron 6400 [1028:01af]
Kernel driver in use: b44
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0b:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:0007]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge

Swarfendor437

Thu Apr 19, 2018 11:59:01 am

High, scroll down to the answer on this thread:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/87519/h ... work#87530

zoro

Thu Apr 19, 2018 2:43:08 pm

Hello Swarfendor,
I entered these commands one at a time and then rebooted -

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
sudo apt-get remove bcmwl-kernel-source

SUCCESS! My old laptop is fully WOKE and online. Many thanks for your quick reply and solving my problem.

Swarfendor437

Thu Apr 19, 2018 7:22:19 pm

Glad to be of help friend.