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Deear Michael,<br>
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Many thanks for your reply. I've e-mailed Steve with the possibility
of meeting up today or Friday. Thanks for your advice on possibly
buying a new chip and swapping it. We'll see if that is necessary.<br>
<br>
Many thanks for your kind reply!<br>
<br>
Nic<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/10/13 13:16, Michael Crilly
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<div dir="ltr">Hey Nic,
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<div>In the event the chip has failed, they can usually be
swapped out easily and pretty cheap. Have you considered
buying a new chip?</div>
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<div>-MC</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 1 October 2013 12:49, Les Pritchard
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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 cards.</div>
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<div>Les</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 27 September 2013 20:23, Nic
Deane <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:nic.deane@btinternet.com"
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Les,<br>
<br>
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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