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Dear Les,<br>
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Many thanks for your reply! I hope to pop by Steve in the next few
days and we'll see if we can trace my problem to its source and go
from there. Hope to meet up with you all sometime.<br>
<br>
Nic<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/10/13 12:49, Les Pritchard wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi Nic,
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<div>Really sorry to hear you didn't see anyone there. It was a
very unusual month where everyone seemed to be busy with
something unfortunately, so I'm sorry for your wasted time. It
would be good to see you next month.</div>
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<div>With regard to your laptop problems, there is a chance that
your chip has failed but it could well be a driver issue. I've
very limited experience with Dell laptops and Linux so can't
really offer many suggestions, but have you tried booting some
alternative distro live cds? In the past I've got lucky
finding a distro that seems happy with problematic wireless
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 27 September 2013 20:23, Nic Deane <span
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I went to the Rake and Pikel last night but was a little
late - arriving about 8 pm. The landlord was very friendly
and gave me the Wifi code so I could get on and do a bit of
work and enjoy a bitter while I waited. Obviously, last
night didn't work for folk because no-one else turned up -
but maybe next month.....<br>
<br>
Anyway, I wonder if anyone could give me a bit of advice?
Steve very kindly sorted out my little Samsung NC110 (Korean
keyboard) netbook a month or so ago and it worked
brilliantly while we were in the States.<br>
It's still working brilliantly - and I'm so glad that all my
files are on it because...but now I have a problem with my
other Linux Mint laptop - a Dell Inspiron 1564. If I didn't
have my trusty little netbook I would really be in trouble!!<br>
<br>
I run Mint 15 Cinnamon on my Dell 1564 - Microsoft free -
and everything's been great until last week. For some reason
my wireless seems to have packed up. The other two computers
in the house (my wife's Windows Dell 1764 and my little
Samsung) don't have any problems connecting wirelessly to
our BT broadband hub, however, my Dell Inspiron 1564 does!<br>
<br>
I know the Broadcom B4312 chip can be a bit problematical
and so I've tried to go through all the ideas on the forums
- including downloading the Sourceforge bcm4312.deb package
and applying it. This seems to be the best thing but it just
keeps trying to connect to my BT hub - and failing. However,
it's better than any of the other alternatives I've been
trying fruitlessly for the last three days. They were all
saying 'out of range' (e.g. purging bcmwl-kernel-source and
installing firmware-b43-lpphy-installer or doing the
opposite and re-installing bcmwl-kernel-source!). Maybe like
the problem Steve solved there's an easy answer but I just
can't see it!<br>
<br>
Can the Broadcom chip fail and completely pack up? Is this
my problem?<br>
<br>
Any wise advice would be most welcome!<br>
<br>
Many thanks in advance,<br>
<br>
Nic Deane
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