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Gaba

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Registered: 2013-01-25

Posts: 11

New installation on Dell Inspiron, no wifi

Hi, I'm new to #!. I just installed it on my Dell Inspiron and the wifi is not working. I have Linux Mint in the same laptop working to I know the wifi is functional.

What should I do?

Cheers.

Ozitraveller

#! Junkie

From: Far from the madding crowd!

Registered: 2011-04-26

Posts: 266

Re: New installation on Dell Inspiron, no wifi

Please post output from the following command.

lspci -nn | grep Network

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Gaba

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Registered: 2013-01-25

Posts: 11

Re: New installation on Dell Inspiron, no wifi

Here it goes:

12:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)

Regards.

dura

Bloated Gimp

From: interzone

Registered: 2012-09-15

Posts: 2,107

Re: New installation on Dell Inspiron, no wifi

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firmware-brcm80211 wireless-tools

Reboot.

Gaba

Member

Registered: 2013-01-25

Posts: 11

Re: New installation on Dell Inspiron, no wifi

That did the trick, thank you!