I was pleased at how easily Ubuntu 11.4 installed on my old Dell Latitude D600, but the wireless didn’t work immediately.
Thankfully, I just had to search for “firmware-b43-installer” in the Ubuntu Software Center, and that did it! By the way, I had to reinstall it after letting the software upgrade tool upgrade me to 11.10. The upgrade generated a bunch of errors, but it appears that they were all related to the wireless.
I was pleased at how easily Ubuntu 11.4 installed on my old Dell Latitude D600, but the wireless didn’t work immediately.
Thankfully, I just had to search for “firmware-b43-installer†in the Ubuntu Software Center, and that did it! By the way, I had to reinstall it after letting the software upgrade tool upgrade me to 11.10. The upgrade generated a bunch of errors, but it appears that they were all related to the wireless.
I did the same thing and ive recently updated my ubuntu to 12.04.It didnt work at first and it kept disconnected but i gave it a restart and everything works fine.