Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card issue

[lighthammer]

Hi, I read around on the forum and apparently, this wireless card (Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card) sucks big golf balls.

I have a Dell Inspirion 6400 with this wireless card. (Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card) I just installed Fedora 8 and I would like to know if anyone that has this wirelss card actually got it working?

If you have, please direct me to a link or drop a quick how-to because apparently through all my reading, I missed it.

Thanks.

- Lighthammer

[TheMayor87]

I have the same device. I had it working in F7, but it died after the F8 update. I tried updating ndiswrapper, but still to no avail. I can't mess with it much now as I'm late for an appointment, but I'll be sure to mess with it tonight. If any progress is made I'll be sure to post here.

[anurags85]

hey all

I just installed Fedora 7 and was having a problem with the dell 1390 drivers. But a few changes did the job. I think this will work for F8 as well,
Though this is not a sort of HOW TO, but i think it should help u as well as others.
This is what i did:
just after installing F7 on my laptop, i downloaded the livna repository from rpm.livna.org
i logged out and then logged in as root in GUI, not in the terminal
then using add/remove software option to install ndiswrapper... ver 1.48 is what i downloaded.
then i visited the ndiswrapper website to see for the installation instructions. Well you can find how to install the DELL 1390 driver and other windows based drivers http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/index.php?/component/option,com_openwiki/Itemid,33/id,installation/
okk i then searched for the windows drivers for the card here http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/j...,33/id,list_b/
then i downloaded the driver from the given link of the HP website. It is an exe file. try exracting the files in a winxp based pc using winzip etc
then in the root user paste the complete folder of the unzipped files in some folder. then from the terminal, run the ndiswrapper in the same location using the command
ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf for wrapping the windows file...u'll see something running in the terminal
then type ndiswrapper -l to see the listing of your device
type ndiswrapper -ma
then add bcm43xx_mac80211 and b43 at the bottom of etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
the black list file can be opened by typing
gedit etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
then the bcm43xx module can be blacklisted by typing the following in the file opened, this needs to be written at the bottom of the list
blacklist bcm43xx_mac80211
blacklist b43
now save the file and reboot
after reboot the wlan should work as it has done in my case.

hope this works for you

Anurag

[Dangermouse]

Hello i have a dell inspiron 1520 with that wireless card, and have included it in my script
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/...d.php?t=171660
unless you have followed anurags85 instructions in which case my script probably wont work, not that im saying anurags85 wont work.

[TheMayor87]

Originally Posted by TheMayor87

I have the same device. I had it working in F7, but it died after the F8 update. I tried updating ndiswrapper, but still to no avail. I can't mess with it much now as I'm late for an appointment, but I'll be sure to mess with it tonight. If any progress is made I'll be sure to post here.

it works now, but I feel like a moron. this card is odd in that, when switched off in windows, it does not turn on. i guess it worked the whole time after the update, i just had forgotten to turn it on in windows. x.x

I did notice, however, that during the startup process there was a message saying something like "determining IP information for wlan0: [FAILED] no link present check cable?"
dunno what that was about, but I'm not complaining, it works.

EDIT: under further examination, it seems that fedora is not powering the wifi on during startup. the only time i'm getting it to work is when i boot into windows (windows powers it on) and reboot, because when you reboot as opposed to power-cycling, the wifi is never turned back off. is there anything i can do to fix this?