[ubuntu-in] Wireless Driver for Dell Inspiron 5160

Tue Mar 31 20:02:10 BST 2009

Sarfaraz Kazi wrote:
> I've got the same wifi chipset on my laptop and it works perfectly
> well by selecting the "Broadcom STA wireless driver" from "Hardware
> Drivers". I'm running Ubuntu 8.04.2 on my laptop.
>   

You can count yourself as a lucky person. The laptops provided by my 
college for the present 2nd years have Broadcom chipset and none of them 
work out of box. Ndiswrapper has always been a simpler solution for them.

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