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Cyrusm

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From: Bozeman, MT

Registered: 2007-11-15

Posts: 1,053

Dell Inspiron 1525 wireless issues.

After much frustration with the slowness on Vista, I decided to install Arch on my laptop  (Dell Inspiron 1525)
I've been running Arch on my Desktop for about a year now and it's been a while since I've done a fresh install.

The problem is getting my wireless card to operate.
I've tried the wiki and the web and haven't had great results.

my wireless card is a Broadcom BCM4310.  I first tried the b43 driver, but it doesn't support the 4310 (it does support the 4309 and 4311.  I guess mine got skipped )
anyways, I then tried the ndiswrapper around the bcmwl5 driver.  I followed the wiki to the letter to get this driver installed, but I am still not showing any wireless devices.

ifconfig -a shows my eth0 and lo.
ifconfig wlan0 up does nothing either.
I'm stumped.

any ideas?

cyrusm

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wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Dell Inspiron 1525 wireless issues.

take a look here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 29#p331429

don't forget that MOD_BLACKLIST is deprecated and you need to put ! in MODULES

Last edited by wonder (2008-07-09 09:16:22)

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