[ ABANDONED ] Ethernet works but Wifi doesn't on Dell Inspiron 1300

[JanetBiggar]

Thanks for the link Moltke - I did work my way through it with the exception of swapping out the card or even just re-setting the card.  Just thought I might be best to quit while I was ahead since the Wifi USB dongle.

Also thank you Jerry for pointing out the system report.  I will remember to do this in future.

[Jerry]

Hi Janet. If you have hardware issues in future, can you please attach a system report to your initial post? Thank you.

https://www.linuxliteos.com/manual/hardware.html#sysreport

[Moltke]

Hi @JanetBiggar

Try reading here http://www.dell.com/support/article/ve/es/vebsdt1/sln151759/how-to-troubleshoot-wireless-network-issues-in-ubuntu-linux-on-your-dell-pc?lang=en

From the link above: "The following article provides information on how to identify and resolve a wireless network issue on your Dell PC with Ubuntu Linux installed."

Hope this helps!

[JanetBiggar]

Hi again, I'm back with more questions!

I am now converting a Dell Inspiron 1300 to LL 3.4 and overall going well.  Interestingly this Inspiron connected fine with the ethernet cable, updated fine, AND I checked for drivers (no Wifi ones came up) AND the Wifi is still not working.

A previous post of mine with a Dell Inspiron 1545 which had the same issue was resolved when a driver was identified via the "Update Drivers", however no drivers showed up for Wifi.

I have checked BIOS and the Wifi is enabled and I also pressed "Fn/F2" but still no Wifi comes on.

What does work is the Wifi USB stick so I have it in (just because it is less cumbersome that the ethernet cable) and ran ifconfig although I was not sure if maybe the ifconfig pertains only to ethernet issues..?

IF the information is useful here it is copy and pasted:

administrator@administrator-ME051:~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:22:93:19:93 
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:18

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
          RX packets:879 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:879 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1
          RX bytes:124450 (124.4 KB)  TX bytes:124450 (124.4 KB)

wlx3c1e045acb74 Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 3c:1e:04:5a:cb:74 
          inet addr:192.168.42.28  Bcast:192.168.42.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::17d0:f26:213b:c85e/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:10676 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:8995 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:11355019 (11.3 MB)  TX bytes:1095297 (1.0 MB)

administrator@administrator-ME051:~$

So my question is:  Does this info suggest what is wrong? AND might there be a reasonable fix?

I'm wondering if maybe the MiniPCI Device is shot"?  If need be I can suggest to the person using this computer to simply work with the Wifi USB.

Thanks