Comments on: Back on Ubuntu on a Dell Vostro 1510

By: v

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 05:26:19 +0000

Thank you, Vinu! I’m finally going back to my good old ubuntu on my new Vostro.

By: vinu

vinu — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:35:29 +0000

Update – The restricted drivers for Intrepid still doesn’t work for me, so I’m still on using ndiswrapper

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Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:38:50 +0000

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By: vinu

vinu — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:49:52 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out – I missed out on pointing that Windows XP drivers have to be used since ndiswrapper doesn’t support Vista drivers yet.

I’ve updated the article to mention that as well.

By: JAWN

JAWN — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:23:53 +0000

Good News,

I believe I have resolved the issue. Originally the drivers I had (bcmwl6.inf) were from Vista_32 bit drivers I had pulled from the Dell site.

I grabbed the Windows XP drivers, these happened to bcmwl5.inf. So here was the issue! After this I was able to connect. Thank you for your tutorial!

By: JAWN

JAWN — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:58:35 +0000

Greetings Vinu,

I used your tutorial to install and configure my wireless drivers for my Vostro 1510. I had much success. However, later on I powered on my PC and it wouldn’t connect via Wireless. In fact in configure network ‘wireless connection’ no longer exists. Although, the Wireless Windows Driver still exist, for me I had bcmwl6.

I also when I first configured it Ubuntu complained the drivers I used were proprietary, however, since then that warning is no longer there.

What are your thoughts?