networking - Dell Inspiron Bluetooth not working

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2014-07
  • Hunter

    So i just recently setup my Dell Inspiron E1505 and it has done great. It runs alot faster than my old computer and now has windows XP service pack 3... recently I noticed that there was another network card in my device drivers and after hours of solving I figured out that it was a bluetooth driver. I have the icon LED on my computer keyboard and everytime I start it up, all the LEDs come on (eg:num lock, caps lock, scroll lock wifi and bluetooth), for post config or what ever. I found sofware to go with it online but it would not detect the hardware. Ive been through three software programs and none of them would detect the drivers. It is enabled in the device drivers, and it does have an assigned mac address and all. plus it came with the laptop so I figured it should work, but for some reason it doesent. I am almost completly out of ideas. any thing will help.

    Thanks, The guy with the old computers!Shows up in device manager Is enabled Software cant find it

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  • Hunter

    Got It...U must enable it in the bios first before you do anything.


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  • Lucas McCoy

    I'm trying to install my wireless drivers (which uses a broadcom card). I tried to install them using the restricted drivers offered on my Ubuntu CD (since my only internet connection is public Wi-Fi). However when I clicked activate it got about halfway through the install process before it gave me this error message:

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  • anders

    I have Broadcom wireless also, it isn't that good but it get the job done. I think it would be better if we could know the exact model, because depending that you will need a driver or another:

    lspci

    Also it would be nice to have the

    dmesg | tail

    output for knowing what error is exactly.

    But anyways, there are a lot of options involving this chipset: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx

  • Algific

    10.04 is still in beta. I would try 9.10 Live, if you can get it working on that one you know that it's a problem with 10.04. If that's the case, than you could file a bug report about 10.04 and you're card.

  • Clint

    FWIW, I discovered that the "patch" package wasn't installed, and that's where the kernel source build was failing. Installed that and it worked.

  • 8088

    After upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 I had the exact same problem! To solve it:

    1. Open Synaptic Package Manager
    2. Type "broadcom"
    3. Right click on "bcmwl-kernel-source" and mark it for re-installation
    4. Go back to the hardware drivers where you should now be able to activate the broadcom driver without any problems.