Dell d620 laptop help

[Guest]

I just installed kubuntu 9.04 couple of days ago, but I can never get a wireless signal for my laptop. Everything is enabled and the hardware is Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN MiniCard. And How am I suppose to install the driver if its not supported.

[vinnywright]

Re: Dell d620 laptop help

I just installed kubuntu 9.04 couple of days ago, but I can never get a wireless signal for my laptop. Everything is enabled and the hardware is Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN MiniCard. And How am I suppose to install the driver if its not supported.

do you have net on the lappey............thrue a hardwire conection?

I ask becose you may nead to post the output of severall comands to get this worked out.

O and make shure it dosent have a switch to turn it on and off. 2 of mine do and having the switch off once had me in fits for a few minuts.

VINNY

[finifly]

Re: Dell d620 laptop help

You may also want to try switching from the default Network Manager plasmoid to wicd.

sudo aptitude install wicd

I had a lot of issues with Network Manager and it all disappeared when I switched to wicd. Obviously you will need to hard wire to the net to try this.

[GreyGeek]

Re: Dell d620 laptop help

You should be able to get things worked out. Before I retired the last PC I was given was a Dell Latitude D620. I dual booted with it and did all of my Qt development work on the Linux side, which was running PCLinuxOS 2007 at the time. Admittedly, I was connected to the Internet through a proxy on our LAN, but if you can download the wicd deb package onto a USB stick and then copy it to the D620 using sudo "dpkg -i packagename" should get it installed. From the machine you download it to, be sure to do a simulate install of wicd and make sure you download all the dependencies too. "sudo apt-get install --simulate wicd"