Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card for Dell Inspiron 1545: How to Drive It!

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On 18.06.2014 17:13, Temlakos wrote:
> Everyone:
>
> I have a three-year-old Dell Inspiron 1545. It came with the Dell
> Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card.
>
> The current output of lspci -k |grep -iA5 wire gives "Dell Wireless 1397
> WLAN Mini-Card" as a subsystem. The relevant kernel module is "ssb."

$ lspci -k |grep -iA5
Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
Try 'grep --help' for more information.

>
> Currently this card will not connect. Nor can I force it to connect by
> directly editing the network interface. I've tried several times, but I
> can't get to a MAC address for it.
>
> What driver(s) or other kernel module(s) should I install, and where can
> I get them?
>
> Broadcom has a 32-bit and a 64-bit tarball for what they say is a driver
> for this card. Should I install that on my system?
>
> Please advise. It seems a shame to operate any laptop without wireless
> connectivity.
>
> Temlakos
>

The complete output of this command:
$ lspci -knn | grep -A100 Wireless


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