Dear Friend
My laptop loaded with ubuntu 8.04 hardy heron has problems with its webcam
and wifi.
It seems ubuntu doesnt support dell webcam and wifi for inspiron 1525
models...
Help me
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With regards
Bruce Mathew,
Sr Lecturer Placement Officer
Secretary, Free Open Software Cell
MCA
Hi,
My laptop loaded with ubuntu 8.04 hardy heron has problems with its webcam
and wifi.
It seems ubuntu doesnt support dell webcam and wifi for inspiron 1525
models...
Help me
I hope webcam is supported well.
Install the application called cheese and try your webcam.
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Regards,
Bruce Mathew wrote:
My laptop loaded with ubuntu 8.04 hardy heron has problems with its webcam
and wifi.
It seems ubuntu doesnt support dell webcam and wifi for inspiron 1525
models...
What wireless card ? Can you post the output of sudo lspci -v here ?
Sujith
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I am not sure if the same would work . But I set up the wireless card
( some broadcom variant ) in a Dell Vostro 1510 without using
NDISWRAPPER. I downloaded the drivers from the broadcomm site and then
compiled them and installed the module using insmod. Then added a
modprobe command to rc.local
Ndiswrapper should be the last choice there are non-free wireless drivers
available for broadcom...I got broadcom wireless network cards work in
fedora 9 by installing broadcom-wl package from rpmfusion-nonfree
repository...
But I don't know about ubuntu...Good luck
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at
you can download the non-free driver from the broadcom site here :
http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
download the driver for your appropriate architecture ( 32bit or 64
bit) and compile it.
I confirmed that the wireless card for which the driver I installed is
the same as the
