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

[Temlakos]

On 06/18/2014 12:05 PM, poma wrote:
> 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.
>
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>> 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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> poma
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The output, after a couple of module installations, now reads:

Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:000c]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: ssb, wl

Still no wireless connection available on that laptop.

Temlakos