Linux driver available for Dell Wireless cards

re: Linux driver available for Dell Wireless cards

Peterfolk — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:53:47 GMT

Hi Christopher, I have a Dell Studio 1535 laptop with the 1397 Dell Wireless card. It was shipped with Windows Vista. In the device manager I found that it has a 4315 (???) Broadcom chipset. My linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 update 2) kernel version is: 2.6.18-92.el5-x86_64 I followed the instruction described in the readme.txt file. (There was a compile error, that bool was previously declared here and here..., I have corrected it). After loading the driver, the WiFi indication led is on... Entering system-config-network and activate the device, I get the following error: Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument. Maybe my correction was wrong for that bool error during compilation, or what has happened? Please help me, it would be appreciated if I could use the wireless under Linux... Thanks, and have a nice day... Peter

re: Linux driver available for Dell Wireless cards

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:29:12 GMT

To owners of Broadcom family wireless chips:

linuxwireless.org supports bcm43xx chipsets, see the full list of supported devices http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43/devices

Information on b43 is on http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

Still I can see no support for my Dell Wireless 1505...

re: Linux driver available for Dell Wireless cards

douglas_moreno — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:38:15 GMT

initproc

how you changed the driver to compile with the 2.6.27.2 kernel.

I have this problem with my kernel.

thanks.

re: Linux driver available for Dell Wireless cards

initproc — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:59:21 GMT

I use a dell laptop model m1330. It works. I check it now. you can't compile this driver in 2.6.27.2 kernel version. some kernel APIs such as iwe_stream_add_*() are changed at 2.6.27 version so you can't compile this driver over 2.6.27 kernel version. anyway I compiled this driver to modify iwe_stream_add_*() APIs and run on Fedora Core 8, 2.6.27.2 at my laptop and it works.

re: Linux driver available for Dell Wireless cards

Tobias W. — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:34:02 GMT

I have to confirm too, that this driver won't work on my Dell D630 Latitude running Ubuntu 8.04.

There is a proprietary driver being offered in Ubuntu from Broadcom which I enabled. However, when I restart, the driver is marked as "enabled" but is not in use.

I have to say that Broadcom sucks. From all the WiFi vendors, it is the worst when it comes to Open Source operating systems.

Even if Broadcom offers a working proprietary driver this is only a very bad "solution".

Dell should look for WiFi vendors that support Free driver development for their chipsets. The Dell I use right now is my company device, personally I wouldn't spend a single € on a notebook with Broadcom hardware. Broadcom is a showstopper.

re: Linux driver available for Dell Wireless cards

BasaBuru — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:14:02 GMT

Hi,

I'm try compile this driver in my machine and not compile (kernel 2.6.27.1 in a Debian sid/experimental). The driver is bad make.

Is posible dell tel boardcom to fix this.???

Can you said we where maquines it's work??? I'm confuse about this. I have a vostro 1510 the driver working in that machine???

Other one.

When dell make a space when localize the infomation about install and configure our machines. Model per model.

In this moment is very hard find it. If you said true about linux and dell you need work very much. The support linux is a compromise with the your clients. And this moment we are in the expectative what we need much more.

I think is very wheel if you starting with the models information billing.

Hi, I'm very happy with my vostro, its very weel work, but a few devices ist'n work weel.

I compromise put my information about this vostro in the an web site space. but isn't. Please build this one

sorry for my very bad english

BasaBuru

re: Linux driver available for Dell Wireless cards

Scott — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:40:11 GMT

Dang, I was all set to switch over to Ubuntu 8.04 I had even booted to it and spent over an hour and a half trying to get the thing to recognize my wireless connection. We really need to get the drivers going for the D630 series. Talk about a let down, back to Windows XP for me.

re: Linux driver available for Dell Wireless cards

basaburu@basatu.org — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:26:05 GMT

It's not true.

I have a dell 1505 and is a boardcom BCM4328

In my vostro this driver isn't work

when we have a driver for dell 1505

thanks

re: Linux driver available for Dell Wireless cards

AD — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:46:15 GMT

Like PJ said above, any chance of support for the Broadcom 4328 found in my Latitude D630?

re: Linux driver available for Dell Wireless cards

DELL-John Hull — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:10:30 GMT

@Bryan: fixed the link

@uga: the driver will be included in the standard Ubuntu "restricted" repository, similar to the NVIDIA proprietary driver.