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Thread: Insprion 1521 - No ethernet or Wifi after a lot of effort..


breaking down , asking help. have old dell inspiron 1521 i'm trying learn ubuntu with. loaded mubi side-by-side vista, had ethernet connection , pulled bcm4311 drivers .. got wifi going , stoked! decided go linux downloaded 32 bit 12.10 , overwrote vista.. booted , absolutely no ethernet recognition.

read as find, trying reinstall because maybe install corrupted, went 32 , 64bit (since may og?), tried force recognition of ethernet changing settings, etc. i'm @ wits end , asking ... have convinced myself nic card had fried between side-by-side , (although wrong , linux-stupid)???

have no internet connection whatsoever on 1521, have access on main home laptop, copy/paste ctrl+alt+t isn't option right now, it'll type..

help?

:network controller product: bcm4311 .. physical id: 0.
bus info: pci@0000:0b:00.0
width: 32 bits.. etc

*-network
ethernet interface
bcm4401-bo 100base-tx
.... etc

info need?

hey, ran same problem last week 1501 same adapter. see if can follow - if not, post , i'll see can help:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2077104


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