I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 in my Dell Inspiron-5520 laptop. Though everything else seems to work properly the wireless network doesn't seem to work which worked perfectly when I had Windows 7 installed. I also tried connecting to internet using a wired network and that too doesn't work. Please help me as I am new at this. I might be wrong but I think there might be a problem with my network drivers. In any case my laptop uses BCM43142 chipset.
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I suggest you upgrade to 13.10 it supports your wireless card by default, then run the following commands:
sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo modprobe wl
wireless should come on, if it does not please post the wireless info again from the script so we can see the current state of your wireless.
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Here is the link to what I get in the terminal when I execute the above commands. pastebin.com/EeUZRJ7D and here is the link for wireless-info pastebin.com/cjGd7Za4 Feb 26, 2014 at 17:28
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Here is the output from the terminal. Please check it out pastebin.com/EkTXkb9A Feb 26, 2014 at 18:23
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By kernel if you mean Ubuntu 12.04 then here is the link from where I downloaded it ubuntu.com/download/desktop. If you mean something else then I didnt install anything else other than the OS. Sorry if I cant be of much help, I really dont know as I am new here. Feb 26, 2014 at 18:49
lspci
andifconfig
.wget -N -t 5 -T 10 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57264241/wireless_script && chmod +x wireless_script && ./wireless_script
It will download a script and create a file named (wireless-info.txt, or wireless-info.txt.tar.gz) in your home folder paste the contents of the file here pastebin.com then paste the link back here. No internet then go to this link for running the script without internet. <ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=12350385>sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
and then output ofifconfig
also tryrfkill list wlan
to check if it's not blocked by any hardware switch