On 4 May 2010 00:46, Kris Douglas <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Ooh, sorry for a doublepost but I read Xubuntu. I don't know where the "Hardware drivers" option is, but I'm sure it will be around the Administration section on your menus. As far as I know, the name is standardised. -- 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/
