My built-in wireless card isn't working with Ubuntu 11.04 Xubuntu distro. Any help? The driver is installed and everything.
The computer is a Dell Latitude D620. The terminal output for your instructions is the following:
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*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
resources: memory:
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:18:8b:cf:25:2d
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
resources: irq:44 memory:
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
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00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub [8086:27a0] (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a2] (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27a6] (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 01)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 3 [8086:27d4] (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:27b9] (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller [8086:27c4] (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 01)
03:01.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ601/6912/711E0 CardBus/
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1600] (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04d9:2ba0 Holtek Semiconductor, Inc.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0b97:7762 O2 Micro, Inc. Oz776 SmartCard Reader
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0b97:7761 O2 Micro, Inc. Oz776 1.1 Hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 413c:a005 Dell Computer Corp. Internal 2.0 Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
H/W path Device Class Description
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/0 bus 0FT292
/0/0 memory 64KiB BIOS
/0/400 processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5500 @ 1.66GHz
/0/400/700 memory 32KiB L1 cache
/0/400/701 memory 2MiB L2 cache
/0/400/1.1 processor Logical CPU
/0/400/1.2 processor Logical CPU
/0/1000 memory 1GiB System Memory
/0/1000/0 memory 1GiB DIMM DDR Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
/0/1000/1 memory DIMM DDR Synchronous [empty]
/0/100 bridge Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub
/0/100/2 display Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller
/0/100/2.1 display Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller
/0/100/1b multimedia N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller
/0/100/1c bridge N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1
/0/100/1c.1 bridge N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2
/0/100/1c.1/0 network BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
/0/100/1c.2 bridge N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 3
/0/100/1c.2/0 eth0 network NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
/0/100/1d bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1
/0/100/1d.1 bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2
/0/100/1d.2 bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3
/0/100/1d.3 bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4
/0/100/1d.7 bus N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller
/0/100/1e bridge 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
/0/100/1e/1 bridge OZ601/6912/711E0 CardBus/
/0/100/1f bridge 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge
/0/100/1f.2 scsi0 storage 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE Controller
/0/100/1f.2/0 /dev/sda disk 80GB TOSHIBA MK8034GS
/0/100/1f.2/0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 71GiB EXT4 volume
/0/100/1f.2/0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 2998MiB Extended partition
/0/100/1f.2/0/2/5 /dev/sda5 volume 2998MiB Linux swap / Solaris partition
/0/100/1f.2/1 /dev/cdrom disk DVD+-RW AD-5540A
/0/100/1f.3 bus N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller
Linux Hades 2.6.38-11-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 29 19:05:14 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[ 0.372215] ACPI: ACPI Dock Station Driver: 2 docks/bays found
[ 0.372222] HEST: Table not found.
[ 0.465500] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 0.465538] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 0.465630] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 0.472220] Switching to clocksource hpet
[ 0.474811] Switched to NOHz mode on CPU #0
[ 0.475031] Switched to NOHz mode on CPU #1
[ 0.573722] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 14 devices
[ 0.664563] input: Lid Switch as /devices/
[ 0.740034] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
[ 0.900261] ERST: Table is not found!
[ 1.265219] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 1.660154] i2c-core: driver [adp5520] using legacy suspend method
[ 1.660158] i2c-core: driver [adp5520] using legacy resume method
[ 1.667382] ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: using broken periodic workaround
[ 1.684450] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.685553] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.686501] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.688549] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.689494] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.702640] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.2.0 loaded
[ 1.702646] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 1.710450] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 2.257770] [Firmware Bug]: Duplicate ACPI video bus devices for the same VGA controller, please try module parameter "video.
[ 2.380062] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 2.493990] tg3 0000:09:00.0: eth0: Tigon3 [partno(
[ 2.493998] tg3 0000:09:00.0: eth0: attached PHY is 5752 (10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet) (WireSpeed[1])
[ 2.494005] tg3 0000:09:00.0: eth0: RXcsums[1] LinkChgREG[0] MIirq[0] ASF[0] TSOcap[1]
[ 2.494022] tg3 0000:09:00.0: eth0: dma_rwctrl[
[ 2.530366] hub 2-2:1.0: USB hub found
[ 2.837301] usb 2-2.3: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
[ 2.968424] hub 2-2.3:1.0: USB hub found
[ 3.229328] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x50
[ 3.249308] usb 2-2.3.2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
[ 12.261574] wl: module license 'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel.
[ 12.312806] wl 0000:0c:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 12.312831] wl 0000:0c:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 12.316470] eth%d: 5.100.82.38 driver failed with code 21
[ 12.659249] leds_ss4200: no LED devices found
[ 12.813502] yenta_cardbus 0000:03:01.0: CardBus bridge found [1028:01c2]
[ 13.046345] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 16.376824] input: HDA Intel Mic at Ext Left Jack as /devices/
[ 16.377316] input: HDA Intel HP Out at Ext Left Jack as /devices/
[ 18.252700] ADDRCONF(
[ 19.884227] tg3 0000:09:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex
[ 19.884235] tg3 0000:09:00.0: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX
[ 19.884740] ADDRCONF(
[ 30.768056] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 314.264130] usb 3-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
[ 314.704459] input: USB Keyboard as /devices/
[ 314.704818] generic-usb 0003:04D9:
[ 314.817501] input: USB Keyboard as /devices/
[ 314.820494] generic-usb 0003:04D9:
[ 314.822310] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[ 314.822316] usbhid: USB HID core driver
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: Latitude D620
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: 0FT292
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Manufacturer: Intel
Manufacturer: AD00000000000000
Manufacturer:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
install snd-rawmidi /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-rawmidi $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq-midi ; : ; }
# which ath5k cannot recover. To prevent this condition, stop
blacklist ath_pci
# Warning: This file is autogenerated by bcmwl. All changes to this file will be lost.
blacklist b43
blacklist b43legacy
blacklist bcm43xx
blacklist brcm80211
blacklist eth1394
# replaced by p54pci
blacklist prism54
# replaced by b43 and ssb.
blacklist bcm43xx
blacklist uart6850
blacklist twl4030_wdt
[main]
NetworkingEnabl
WirelessEnabled
WWANEnabled=true
24: PCI c00.0: 0280 Network controller
[Created at pci.318]
UDI: /org/freedeskto
Unique ID: zb5c.AUabv0M9SM3
Parent ID: qTvu.f86JBt6kfy7
SysFS ID: /devices/
SysFS BusID: 0000:0c:00.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: "Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card"
Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom"
Device: pci 0x4311 "BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN"
SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell"
SubDevice: pci 0x0007 "Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card"
Revision: 0x01
Memory Range: 0xefdfc000-
IRQ: 17 (no events)
Module Alias: "pci:v000014E4d
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: ssb is not active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe ssb"
Driver Info #1:
Driver Status: wl is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe wl"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #13 (PCI bridge)
25: PCI 900.0: 0200 Ethernet controller
[Created at pci.318]
UDI: /org/freedeskto
Unique ID: rBUF.9a4JKShdn02
Parent ID: hoOk.hz_o80M8jj8
SysFS ID: /devices/
SysFS BusID: 0000:09:00.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: "Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express"
Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom"
Device: pci 0x1600 "NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express"
SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell"
SubDevice: pci 0x01c2
Revision: 0x02
Driver: "tg3"
Driver Modules: "tg3"
Device File: eth0
Memory Range: 0xefcf0000-
IRQ: 44 (3607 events)
HW Address: 00:18:8b:cf:25:2d
Link detected: yes
Module Alias: "pci:v000014E4d
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: tg3 is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe tg3"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #14 (PCI bridge)
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root 796 0.0 0.4 26468 4452 ? Ssl 15:29 0:00 NetworkManager
root 987 0.0 0.1 2552 1232 ? S 15:29 0:00 /sbin/dhclient -d -4 -sf /usr/lib/
derik 2056 0.0 0.0 4148 856 pts/0 S+ 15:36 0:00 egrep --color=auto icd|etwork
Module Size Used by
usbhid 41704 0
hid 77084 1 usbhid
cryptd 19801 0
aes_i586 16956 84
aes_generic 38023 1 aes_i586
parport_pc 32111 0
ppdev 12849 0
dm_crypt 22463 0
snd_hda_codec_idt 60537 1
snd_hda_intel 24113 3
snd_hda_codec 90901 2 snd_hda_
snd_hwdep 13274 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 80042 2 snd_hda_
snd_seq_midi 13132 0
snd_rawmidi 25269 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi
joydev 17322 0
snd_seq 51291 2 snd_seq_
snd_timer 28659 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 14110 3 snd_seq_
pcmcia 39671 0
snd 55295 15 snd_hda_
yenta_socket 27230 0
psmouse 73312 0
serio_raw 12990 0
pcmcia_rsrc 18292 1 yenta_socket
soundcore 12600 1 snd
dell_wmi 12601 0
lp 13349 0
dell_laptop 13515 0
pcmcia_core 21505 3 pcmcia,
sparse_keymap 13666 1 dell_wmi
snd_page_alloc 14073 2 snd_hda_
wl 2642531 0
parport 36746 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
dcdbas 14054 1 dell_laptop
lib80211 14570 1 wl
i915 451033 2
tg3 131476 0
drm_kms_helper 40745 1 i915
drm 184164 3 i915,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 13184 1 i915
video 18951 1 i915
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