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anta40

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From: Jakarta, Indonesia

Registered: 2010-03-01

Posts: 79

Dell Vostro 1400 - How to enable wifi?

I ran this (my wifi chipset is Broadcom, anyway) :
ifconfig wlan0 up

And the output was:
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

So I followed the guide on this page, and stuck at this part:
FATAL: Module wl not found

Any idea?

3])

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2009-10-12

Posts: 215

Re: Dell Vostro 1400 - How to enable wifi?

Did you download the broadcom driver module from http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19514 ?

Perhaps this could help with that process: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR

Last edited by 3]) (2010-11-25 22:32:01)

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tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Dell Vostro 1400 - How to enable wifi?

You should try b43 (in-kernel driver) first, before going for wl.

If you want more detailed assistance, provide more details.

anta40

Member

From: Jakarta, Indonesia

Registered: 2010-03-01

Posts: 79

Re: Dell Vostro 1400 - How to enable wifi?

i just reread the tutorial again, and i finally found the mistake:
i only run makepkg, and then modprobe wl after that
i forgot to install the newly built broadcom-wl package >_<