Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell laptop latitude D420
On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 21:21 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve, Sadly I have no idea what the chipset is, I would presume it is Dell's? I have made no changes to it. How do I find out? James. - Original Message - From: Stephen Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 9:03 PM Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell laptop latitude D420 On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 20:45 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At long last I can run my Dell Latitude D420 with Ubuntu on it, and everything is recognised, I think. But when I go to connect to my WiFi, it keeps on asking for the pass key, I put it in, it searches and comes back asking for the passkey, I put it in. etc. Yet it will connect with no problems with an unsecure network somewhere near to me? Can you advise what I can do? Cheers. James. Does this laptop have the Intel PRO/Wireless chipset or Dell's own Truemobile 1390 with the Broadcom *shudder* chipset? This wiki page might be useful. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported Regards, Steve Hi James, The link I provided will tell you how to find out. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported The quickest way involves using a cli command, lspci. E.g. :~$ lspci | grep Network 01:0a.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) If you see something like the above then you have a Broadcom card and need to download some firmware to get it working. So if you're on Ubuntu 7.10, then you should be able to install it in the System - Administration - Restricted Drivers Manager, with a wired connection. There is a wiki page about this at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx Regards, Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell laptop latitude D420
On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 20:45 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At long last I can run my Dell Latitude D420 with Ubuntu on it, and everything is recognised, I think. But when I go to connect to my WiFi, it keeps on asking for the pass key, I put it in, it searches and comes back asking for the passkey, I put it in. etc. Yet it will connect with no problems with an unsecure network somewhere near to me? Can you advise what I can do? Cheers. James. Does this laptop have the Intel PRO/Wireless chipset or Dell's own Truemobile 1390 with the Broadcom *shudder* chipset? This wiki page might be useful. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported Regards, Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell laptop latitude D420
Steve, Sadly I have no idea what the chipset is, I would presume it is Dell's? I have made no changes to it. How do I find out? James. - Original Message - From: Stephen Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 9:03 PM Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell laptop latitude D420 On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 20:45 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At long last I can run my Dell Latitude D420 with Ubuntu on it, and everything is recognised, I think. But when I go to connect to my WiFi, it keeps on asking for the pass key, I put it in, it searches and comes back asking for the passkey, I put it in. etc. Yet it will connect with no problems with an unsecure network somewhere near to me? Can you advise what I can do? Cheers. James. Does this laptop have the Intel PRO/Wireless chipset or Dell's own Truemobile 1390 with the Broadcom *shudder* chipset? This wiki page might be useful. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported Regards, Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell laptop latitude D420
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At long last I can run my Dell Latitude D420 with Ubuntu on it, and everything is recognised, I think. But when I go to connect to my WiFi, it keeps on asking for the pass key, I put it in, it searches and comes back asking for the passkey, I put it in. etc. Yet it will connect with no problems with an unsecure network somewhere near to me? Can you advise what I can do? Cheers. James. I had exactly the same thing with my dad's laptop. I changed the key on his router (he was using WPA with a pre-shared key) and it worked fine after it was changed. I'm not sure if there is a minimum length it should be. I think my dad's one was set to 8 characters and it worked. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
