{"id":496,"date":"2009-07-21T22:19:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T02:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/?p=496"},"modified":"2018-10-22T12:30:46","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T16:30:46","slug":"dell-600m-getting-wireless-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/21\/dell-600m-getting-wireless-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell 600m, getting wireless to work"},"content":{"rendered":"<abbr class=\"unapi-id\" title=\"\"><!-- &nbsp; --><\/abbr>\n<p>I have an older Dell 600m that came with 512k memory, Windows XP Home edition, no power supply and a few broken keys.   From ebay I increased the memory to 1.2 gig ($34), replaced the keyboard ($17), and bought a new power supply ($11), for a parts cost of $62.  <\/p>\n<p>For a friend, I had tried to clean up the Windows installation twice, and tired of tying to make XP Home work right, I decided to install Ubuntu 9.04.  It was a very easy install, except that the onboard broadcom wireless card was not recognised by the operating system.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I used this command from a shell to learn some details about the wireless card:<\/p>\n<p>lspci -vnn | grep 14e4<\/p>\n<p>Which gave this result:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX [14e4:170c] (rev 02)<br \/>\n02:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After looking at some forums, I decided to install a program from the Synaptic Pakcage manger called <strong>b43-fwcutter<\/strong>, which is described as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a utility for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware, fwcutter is a tool which can extract firmware from various source files. It&#8217;s written for BCM43xx driver files.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For whatever reason, and I certainly did not understand it, this completely fixed the problem.  I rebooted the computer and the wireless worked just fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an older Dell 600m that came with 512k memory, Windows XP Home edition, no power supply and a few broken keys. From ebay I increased the memory to 1.2 gig ($34), replaced the keyboard ($17), and bought a new power supply ($11), for a parts cost of $62. For a friend, I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[64,67,65,28,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1520,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}