Tech/Wireless

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Dell laptops and notebooks come with one of several wireless adapters.

Contents 1 802.11a/b/g Wireless Ethernet 1.1 Intel 1.2 Dell TrueMobile / Broadcom 2 Bluetooth 3 Mobile Broadband (HSDPA, EVDO)

[edit] 802.11a/b/g Wireless Ethernet

To find out your wireless chipset, use

hwinfo --wlan
17: PCI c00.0: 0282 WLAN controller
  [...]
  Hardware Class: network
  Model: "Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection"
  Vendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x4222 "PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection"
  SubVendor: pci 0x8086 "Intel Corporation"
  [...]
  Driver: "ipw3945"
  Driver Modules: "ipw3945"
  Device File: eth1
  [...] 
  HW Address: 00:18:de:cd:2b:38
  Link detected: yes
  [...]
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: ipw3945 is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe ipw3945"
  [...]

In this case we have an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG WLAN card. It is activated, otherwise you could activate it with the command modprobe ipw3945.

[edit] Intel

• Intel IPW3945 Wireless Ethernet (802.11a/b/g)

[edit] Dell TrueMobile / Broadcom

Dell does not have tested and validated drivers for these cards at this time.

• Using ndiswrapper for Dell TrueMobile wireless cards

[edit] Bluetooth

Dell has not tested or validated bluetooth on these systems at this time.

[edit] Mobile Broadband (HSDPA, EVDO)

Dell does not have tested and validated drivers for these cards at this time.