Today I helped a family member with his Inspiron 1545 and here is the story of that Journey"
- Insert USB with Ubuntu
- Start the "Additional Drivers" application (Search for "Driver" from "Dash Home" application, the first icon with the Ubuntu Logo).
- The "Broadcom STA wireless driver" was found in my case. Select "Acrivate", I got:
Sorry. installation of this driver failed. Please have a look at the log files for details: /var/log/jockey.log A quick look of the jockey.log revealed: 2012-09-15 19:30:56,301 ERROR: Package fetching failed: Failed to fetch cdrom:[Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS _Precise Pangolin_ - Release amd64 (20120823.1)]/pool/main/d/dkms/dkms_2.2.0.3-1ubuntu3_all.deb Unable to stat the mount point /media/cdrom/ - stat (2: No such file or directory) Sorry. installation of this driver failed. Please have a look at the log files for details: /var/log/jockey.log
A quick look of the jockey.log revealed:2012-09-15 19:30:56,301 ERROR: Package fetching failed: Failed to fetch cdrom:[Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS _Precise Pangolin_ - Release amd64 (20120823.1)]/pool/main/d/dkms/dkms_2.2.0.3-1ubuntu3_all.deb Unable to stat the mount point /media/cdrom/ - stat (2: No such file or directory)
- Of course the problem here is that a cdrom is expected but we are using a usb device. Take a look at /media directory and you should see the name of the USB device (In my case UBUNTU) so a simple symlink will help:
sudo ln -s /media/UBUNTU /media/cdrom
- Now you should be able to activate the driver now as explained above
- Once the driver is installed delete the shortcut we created:
sudo rm /media/cdrom
- You might want to restart and use the fn+f2 combination to get to the BIOS, select wireless and disable the wireless hardware switch to avoid wireless disconnections.
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