Graphics: Card: NVIDIA G98M bus-ID: 01:00.0 Mobo: Dell model: 0PP476 Bios: Dell version: A14 date: ĬPU: Dual core Intel Core2 Duo CPU P8600 (-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 9576.28Ĭlock Speeds: 1: 800.00 MHz 2: 800.00 MHz Machine: System: Dell product: Latitude E6500 With the SSD back in the Dell E6500, follow the Step 3 procedure, and reboot.ĮDIT : With the newer broadcom firmware package, the Ubuntu instruction is slightly obsolete. In my case, it was a desktop with no wifi and so the lpphy installer would abort with a "no broadcom chip found" error.Īnd scroll down to the "b43 - No Internet" section, skip Step 1 and get the two packages shown in Step 2 and save them in ~/home/user.ģ. You can't run the lpphy installer package at this step, unless it happens that the host computer that you are using has the BCM 4312 wifi chip. For speed and simplicity, I pulled the SSD, connected it to another 64-bit computer that has ethernet, installed siduction from a USB stick, booted it and ran d-u, added contrib and non-free to the /etc/apt//debian.list sources, and installed b43-fwcutter and a few of my favorite packages.
Moreover, the "Firmware on a USB Stick" coverage in the manual doesn't quite get the BCM 4312 working.įor future reference (my own, if no one else's), here's the needed process:ġ.
Dell latitude e6500 wifi driver install#
Although the installer detected the chip and attempted to install the b43 driver, I think what happened in the background was a failure to grab the firmware from the download site due to lack of ethernet connectivity. I don't think it's a bug in 2012.1, I think the problem is the odd configuration of this laptop which has no ethernet capability, and a Broadcom 4312 wifi chip that needs nonfree firmware.