Configuring laptop’s wifi on Ubuntu
This tutorial applied only for onboard wifi “Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card”. The pith of this tutorial is on how to install driver for wifi card. Since the card uses 43xx chipset, download the appropriate Linux driver for that chipset.
- First, edit sources.list by using command sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
- Add this line on, save and close gedit. “deb http://ubuntu.cafuego.net edgy-cafuego bcm43xx“
- Now, execute this command wget http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/969F3F57.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
- Update the repository. sudo apt-get update
- Install the driver sudo apt-get install bcm43xx-firmware
- Install packages to see the actuve access point,
sudo apt-get install network-manager
sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome - The installation process is finished. To activate the WiFi, just click the Wifi button directly or by executing ifconfig ethX up.
Sources:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=391961
http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/
