That's what I just suggested you do!
Glad you got it working!
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Mark Phillips
<
mark@phillipsmarketing.biz>wrote:
> Wireless is now working, based on the info in this post:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1604868&page=58
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Mark Phillips <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz
> > wrote:
>
>> Lisa and Stephen,
>>
>> I got the wired working...looks like a bad cable - see my previous post.
>> Have to take my starving daughter to dinner - they whine a lot when they
>> get hungry...;)
>>
>> I will let you know about the wifi when I get back!
>>
>> Thanks for the super quick responses!!!
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Lisa Kachold <lisakachold@obnosis.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Mark,
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Mark Phillips <
>>> mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I installed Ubuntu 12.04 on a Dell Latitude D620. I didn't expect any
>>>> issues based on googling this laptop and Linux. However, I cannot get
>>>> Ethernet or wifi to work.
>>>>
>>>> lspci shows the correct hardware
>>>>
>>>> Ethernet controller; Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigibit
>>>> Ethernet PCI Express (rev 2)
>>>> Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
>>>>
>>>> I went into Network Connections and added a Wired connection and gave
>>>> it a name and selected the MAc address for eth0 (in the drop down list),
>>>> and selected automatic (DHCP) as the method for iP4
>>>>
>>>> I looked at /etc/network/interfaces
>>>> auto lo
>>>> iface lo inet loopback
>>>>
>>>> so I tried adding
>>>>
>>>> auto eth0
>>>>
>>>> but no luck. grep -i eth /var/log/syslog gives
>>>>
>>>> Network Manager[2029]: <info> (eth0): new Ethernet device (driver:'tg3'
>>>> ifindex: 2)
>>>> Network Manager[2029]: <info> (eth0): exported as
>>>> /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
>>>> Network Manager[2029]: <info> (eth0): mow managed
>>>> Network Manager[2029]: <info> (eth0): device state change: unmanaged ->
>>>> unavailable (reason 'managed') [10 2 0 2]
>>>> Network Manager[2029]: <info> (eth0): bringing up device
>>>> Network Manager[2029]: <info> (eth0): preparing device
>>>> Network Manager[2029]: <info> (eth0): deactivating device (reason
>>>> 'managed') [2]
>>>> kernel: [1815.448547] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
>>>> kernel: [1815.449321] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
>>>>
>>>> I looked at some forum posts on how to fix this, and the best I found
>>>> was to edit NetworkManager.conf and set managed=true (it came false out of
>>>> the box). That did not help.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any other suggestions you may have!
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>>
>>> It appears to be trying to use a tg3 driver - which is the ethernet.
>>>
>>> Follow these instructions to setup the /etc/network/interfaces
>>> networking for Network Manager:
>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/11.10/serverguide/network-configuration.html
>>>
>>> Example for /etc/network/interfaces:
>>>
>>> auto eth0
>>> iface eth0 inet dhcp
>>> pre-up /sbin/ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 duplex full
>>>
>>> Manual test (non-persistent):
>>>
>>> # sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.50 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
>>> # route add default gw 192.168.1.1 eth0
>>>
>>> For your wireless:
>>>
>>> Please show us the output of:
>>>
>>>
>>> nm-tool
>>> lsmod | grep b43
>>> sudo iwlist scan
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> sudo cat /var/log/syslog | grep -e b43 -e firmware -e wpa -e wlan -e etork | tail -n55
>>>
>>> $ sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
>>> $ sudo apt-get remove bcmwl-kernel-source
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