On 4 May 2010 00:24, Nigel Verity <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi > > i have just bought a Dell Inspiron 1750 laptop, and installed Xubuntu on it. > I have 2 problems: > > 1) I cannot get it to detect any wi-fi network connection. It has a Broadcom > 4312 wi-fi adaptor. > > 2) I can find no way of disabling the intensely annoying touchpad. There is > no option in the BIOS config, > and even its original Windows 7 control panel had no option, either. Does > anybody know where the > Linux driver might be located, so I can disable it? > > Any suggestions on either point would be very much appreciated. > > Regards > > Nige
The trackpads on those laptops are hated by many, many people. Simple fix to kill the thing though: "synclient TouchpadOff=1" to turn it offf, and "synclient TouchpadOff=0" to turn it on. These are command line arguments, and last time I checked you didn't need to be root. As for the wifi, are there any restricted drivers available to download on your machine (check in System>Administration>Hardware Drivers menu), you may need to connect to the internet for this to work, use a LAN cable. But You might be OK without. try plugging a network cable in and running "sudo apt-get update" and then "sudo apt-get install bcmwl_kernel_source", it should fix it. Hope that helped. -- Kris Douglas, NODE Computer Systems Web Hosting & Design, Server Administration, Technical Support & Computer Construction T. 01200438449 M. 07728574285 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
