WiFi on Dell Latitude D600

[Shane Williams]

One of the best places to check for linux laptop problems/solutions is
http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/

I suspect you may have already checked there, because I didn't find
any D600 entries with your WiFi card in them, but there might be some
other people who don't know about this useful resource.

Also, I don't know if it supports the FN-F2 command or not, but the
i8kutils package adds support for some of the buttons and key combos
on newer Dell laptops (including the D600).  Debian package info is at
http://packages.debian.org/stable/utils/i8kutils

On Thu, 4 May 2006, Eric Belhomme wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I know this post is not really in charter, but as there's not specific 
> list for Linux on Dell laptops...
> 
> So I own a Dell D600 running Debian Etch and Ms Windows XP Pro (dual 
> boot) There is a mini-PCI WiFi card (Dell Truemobile 1400) based on 
> broadcom BCM4306. This chipset is not directly supported on Linux, but 
> works fine with the ndiswrapper module.
> 
> The problem is if I launch Linux while the WiFi card was previously 
> desactivated under Windows by pressing [Fn]=[F2], I can't use the WiFi 
> card :
> ndiswrapper goes up correctly but when I try to use it I get a message 
> "receive_packet failed on wlan0: Network is down". Of course pressing 
> [Fn]+[F2] keys seems to do nothing...
> I have to reboot on Windows, reactivate the card by pressing [Fn]+[F2] 
> again, and then rebbot on Linux...
> 
> So I'd like to know if there is a workaround to activate/desactivate the 
> wifi card under Linux ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 

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