[Chester LUG] Yesterday's meeting

[Nic Deane]

Dear Les,

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.

Nic
On 01/10/13 12:49, Les Pritchard wrote:
> Hi Nic,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Les
>
>
> On 27 September 2013 20:23, Nic Deane <nic.deane at btinternet.com 
> <mailto:nic.deane at btinternet.com>> wrote:
>
>     Dear Les,
>
>     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.....
>
>     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.
>     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!!
>
>     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!
>
>     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!
>
>     Can the Broadcom chip fail and completely pack up? Is this my problem?
>
>     Any wise advice would be most welcome!
>
>     Many thanks in advance,
>
>     Nic Deane
>
>
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