Dell XPS m1530 no wireless

Hey,

My sister got a brand new laptop today. She's installed Ubuntu on it. Wireless isn't working.

I found this thread. https://bugs.launchpad.net/dell/+bug/190664

I've installed the restricted Broadcom chipset and also tried ndiswrapper but when I run,

Code:

# dhclient eth2

It just keeps trying and never connects.

She uses it for work so we're looking for suggestions. She accidentally installed the 32bit ver but not sure it matters much (will try 64bit tomorrow).

 

Code:

root@the-accountant:~# iwconfig wlan2 essid theinternets
Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
    SET failed on device wlan2 ; No such device.
root@the-accountant:~# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth2      IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:""  Nickname:""
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated  
          Bit Rate:14 Mb/s   Tx-Power:off  
          Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Managementmode:All packets received
         
root@the-accountant:~# dhclient eth2
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.2
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth2/00:26:5e:1a:ef:af
Sending on   LPF/eth2/00:26:5e:1a:ef:af
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
DHCPDISCOVER on eth2 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 2
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
root@the-accountant:~# 

With my open network using the Ubuntu proprietary broadcom driver.

 

Are you using the broadcom sta driver from here? http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

If so do an lsmod and make sure that b43 (and b43legacy) isn't loaded. If it is, sudo modprobe -r b43 and then sudo modprobe -r wl; sudo modprobe wl

Then try your sudo iwconfig wlan2 essid theinternets ap any and sudo dhclient eth2