Hi guys, I was now trying to mess my laptop with all the possible ways. as i am more towards open source coz they give you the freedom ur looking for and which i want. And as a noob i prefer using ubuntu as my standard linux operating system which i personally suggest you all to use if you prefer playing with OS. and in this installation i got another problem which is my Dell 1395 wireless card. Linux specially ubuntu is still not supporting this Dell Wireless card. And here in my Univ i will be desparately looking for wi- fi spots than lan. so i thought to struggle some how and get it connected and i suceeded atlast.
Now i am giving the steps of making your wireless card enabled for networking.
first the process is we use ndiswrapper to use our windows version of devise driver software and work it with ubuntu
After trying many different approaches suggested all over the web, and gathering clues in many Ubuntu forum posts, I finally worked out this solution:
1. blacklist bcm43xx
echo 'blacklist bcm43xx' | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
2. install ndiswrapper and related files
sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common ndisgtk
(this should also pull in the 'utils' package)
when I was all said and done, I had
ndiswrapper 1.45
ndiswrapper-utils 1.9
ndisgtk (you don't really need this, and my instructions don't make use of it)
3. download and extract http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R174291.exe
this is a ridiculous bit of bloat, but the most complete INF for 43xx devices
4. go into folder DRIVER_US inside the result of what you did above
5. use ndiswrapper to install bcmwl5.inf
sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
sudo ndiswrapper -m (this one will give you a bunch of warnings - ignore)
sudo ndiswrapper -ma
sudo ndiswrapper -mi
(I don't honestly know if the last three steps are necessary, but can't hurt)
6. reboot your machine
