Although Dreamlinux comes with Broadcom wireless drivers and firmware (b43) preinstalled, you may still have an incompatible card. Broadcom wireless firmware is reverse engineered, and is used by all Linux distros. It is not a Dreamlinux specific solution if your particular card doesn't work.
Before posting for support, please read the Broadcom b43 Supported Chip Type page first:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Supported_chip_typesFind out which card your laptop has here:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43/devicesOr by issuing a command in the terminal:
lspci
Main way to get a supported card to work:
1. Load the b43 module:
sudo b43load b43
2. Check to see if the module is loaded:
lsmod
3. Check to see if your wireless card is recognised (wlan0):
sudo iwconfig
4. Start your wireless card:
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
5.
Physically switch on your wireless card
a) By a switch on your laptop case
b) By a key combination, such as Fn+F3 (it will be a light blue wireless sign on the F.. key)
6. Restart your network:
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
7. Configure Wicd:
Your as soon as you click on Wicd you should see any local Wireless ESSIDS. If not, click the refresh button, it can take some time for them to be detected. Make sure your card is listed as "wlan0".
8. You can manually do an ESSID search as well (if your card supports scanning).
sudo iwlist scanning
Sometimes you need to repeat the above processes to kick-start a card, and suddenly you get a list of ESSIDs appear. It all depends on what card you have, old/new, fast/slow, how far away your router is, how many local ESSIDs there are etc.
The above steps should get you going. If you do have a compatible card, and none of the above steps work, then by all means post on the forum, but basically, apart from using the Windows native drivers with the Dreamlinux Windows driver loader (a front-end for Ndiswrapper), the above steps are all we can offer as a solution.
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