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Dell 1501 laptop and Broadcom Wifi card in LinuxMint

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tjr

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WIFI settings for Dell Inspiron 1501---

Broadcom Corporation Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card (4311?)



In bios, disable keyboard function key for WIFI



After fresh install of Linux Mint 17.3 to hard drive, (must be online with ethernet), reboot.



Start Menu...Administration...Driver Manager.


It will now check for proprietary drivers.
There should be 3 choices;

DO NOT install recommended STA driver!


INSTALL: firmware-b43-installer



Restart...

WIFI indicator light above keyboard should now be lit.


Open network connections; turn off ethernet; turn on WIFI
.

Worked for me; hope this helps others with old Dell laptops
(and the difficult Broadcom WIFI!)
 
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