Thanks guys you saved my day. Workaround using Ubuntu 11.04 in Inspiron 1526 bernardo@bowman-europa:~$ uname -a Linux bowman-europa 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:24 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Steps:
1. use "Additional Drivers" tool to uninstall the STA driver
2. use "sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer" to put the old driver in
3. reboot
bernardo@bowman-europa:~$ hwinfo --wlan
23: PCI b00.0: 0282 WLAN controller
[Created at pci.318]
UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4311
Unique ID: y9sn.CvS0RaMGsb1
Parent ID: CvwD.mZjk5kP_4OD
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0/0000:0b:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:0b:00.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: "Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card"
Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom"
Device: pci 0x4311 "BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN"
SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell"
SubDevice: pci 0x0007 "Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card"
Revision: 0x01
Driver: "b43-pci-bridge"
Driver Modules: "ssb"
Device File: wlan0
Features: WLAN
Memory Range: 0xfe8fc000-0xfe8fffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
IRQ: 17 (no events)
HW Address: 00:1e:4c:b3:45:e4
Link detected: yes
WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447 2.452 2.457
2.462
WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP
WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap
Module Alias: "pci:v000014E4d00004311sv00001028sd00000007bc02sc80i00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: ssb is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe ssb"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #3 (PCI bridge)
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Title:
bcmwl 5.100.82.38+bdcom-0ubuntu2 not work on BCM4311
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