I am a pretty clueless Ubuntu user, so bear with me. Yes I have searched extensively for an existing answer, but they all either make no sense to me or do not seem to apply.
Anyway, I installed a fresh version of 13.04 on my Dell inspirion 1721, and I have no wired or wireless connections. There are no additional drivers available in software and updates.
An interesting thing is that if I boot up with the usb stick that I used to install Ubuntu, the wired connection works fine and the Broadcom driver is listed in software and updates - additional drivers.
If anyone could point me in the next direction to go, I would greatly appreciate it.
Cat /ect/lsb-release; uname -a
cat: /ect/lsb-release: No such file or directory
Linux mike-Inspiron-1721 3.8.0-19-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 17 18:19:42 UTC 2013 i686 athlon i686 GNU/Linux
lspci -nmk | grep -iA2 net
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX [14e4:170c] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01fd]
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832] (rev 05)
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0b:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4312] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1490 Dual Band WLAN Mini-Card [1028:0007]
Kernel driver in use: wl
lsusb
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0930:6544 Toshiba Corp. Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 Stick (2GB)
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:0745 Microsoft Corp. Nano Transceiver v1.0 for Bluetooth
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth)
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0a5c:4502 Broadcom Corp. Keyboard (Boot Interface Subclass)
Bus 005 Device 004: ID 0a5c:4503 Broadcom Corp. Mouse (Boot Interface Subclass)
iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
lsmod
Module Size Used by
nls_utf8 12493 1
isofs 39211 1
nls_iso8859_1 12617 1
parport_pc 27504 0
bnep 17669 2
ppdev 12817 0
rfcomm 37420 0
bluetooth 202069 10 bnep,rfcomm
snd_hda_codec_idt 63896 1
snd_hda_intel 38307 3
snd_hda_codec 117580 2 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
ssb 69217 1
snd_hwdep 13272 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 80890 2 snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel
wl 3027822 1
snd_page_alloc 14230 2 snd_pcm,snd_hda_intel
radeon 870822 3
snd_seq_midi 13132 0
snd_seq_midi_event 14475 1 snd_seq_midi
ttm 71289 1 radeon
snd_rawmidi 25114 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 51280 2 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi
drm_kms_helper 47545 1 radeon
r852 17873 0
sm_common 16772 1 r852
snd_seq_device 14137 3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi
drm 228750 5 ttm,drm_kms_helper,radeon
snd_timer 24411 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd 56485 15 snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device
nand 49670 2 r852,sm_common
soundcore 12600 1 snd
kvm_amd 50336 0
nand_ecc 13105 1 nand
nand_bch 13003 1 nand
joydev 17097 0
lib80211 14040 1 wl
sp5100_tco 13447 0
kvm 376505 1 kvm_amd
i2c_algo_bit 13197 1 radeon
bch 17226 1 nand_bch
cfg80211 436177 1 wl
dell_wmi 12601 0
dell_laptop 17161 0
i2c_piix4 13066 0
sparse_keymap 13658 1 dell_wmi
r592 17707 0
dcdbas 14021 1 dell_laptop
memstick 15842 1 r592
nand_ids 8547 1 nand
mtd 38922 2 nand,sm_common
psmouse 81038 0
shpchp 32129 0
mac_hid 13037 0
k8temp 12842 0
serio_raw 13031 0
wmi 18590 1 dell_wmi
video 18894 0
ati_agp 13177 0
lp 13299 0
parport 40753 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
hid_generic 12484 0
usbhid 41805 0
hid 82666 2 hid_generic,usbhid
pata_acpi 12886 0
usb_storage 47684 1
firewire_ohci 35292 0
sdhci_pci 18158 0
sdhci 31824 1 sdhci_pci
pata_atiixp 13058 1
firewire_core 61718 1 firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t 12627 1 firewire_core
ahci 25507 2
libahci 26108 1 ahci
The 'rfkill list all' comand returned nothing.
Thanks
Recovery Mode(Safe Mode)
and first go tonetwork
option to enable networking, then go toroot
option from the same list and run any command likesudo apt-get update
to check if network is working or not. If it works then you'll get information likeX KB fetched in Y seconds
, which will insure that internet is working inRecovery Mode
. Reply what happens, then I'll proceed further..I suggest you to do this step while connected via wired network
network
option? Did you get any problem while enabling network! Like some error messageexcept messages that have been displayed by default
?yes
.. Then only it will enable network! After enabling.. wait for some time and then proceed further..