I just installed Ubuntu 7.10 on a Dell Inspiron 1525. It is very lovely, but i just cant get to use my Wireless Card, and so its almost useless to me without that. Any references or suggestions would really be appreciated.

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bro i need to know the type of wireless card u use ,  before that have u checked your restricted driver manager ,  Ubuntu has a restricted Driver manager wh contains those driver in your system that are not open source and as such are disabled by default ,  but u can enable them and ubuntu would if necessary download the necessary driver needed,  to check your restricted driver ,  go to system/administration/restricted driver manager  ,  in your top- panel,  u will see all the drivers that are not open source on your system ,  to enbale them  u have to check them

look at mine u can see that i have checked my two restricted drivers which in my case are my nvidia cards and my intel wireless card

Damn! i have being banned for uploading images    edit

*ok i found a way around the ban




  anyway just check your restricted driver and tell me what gives,

if that doesnt help ,  tell me the type of wireless card your system is running and u can find that under System/Preference/Hardware Information scroll through to your wireless card

good luck

Hey, thanks for ur reply. There are no restricted drivers required on the system funny though it does recognise the internal bluetooth adapter.

The Wireless adapter is a Dell Wireless MiniCard 1395 WLAN Mini Card.

Thanks for the note.
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Hey I am having the same problem with my Inspiron-1525 laptop with the "Dell Wireless 1395 WLAN Mini-card" and I was wondering if you ever found a solution to your problem? Thanks

well all i can do is advise u to register to the Ubuntuforums and post ur question under network/wireless http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=336 u would get help there

my starcomms sierra wireless aircard 580 worked without any stress. just inserted, was asked for my username and password. thats all!