10-26-2016, 10:45 AM
;D I've been revitalising a Dell 1501 and had a similar problem, now SOLVED thanks to the posts here. I repeat it in case it's of use to others. My installation of LinuxLite 3.0 went great - ethernet and wifi working- until I rashly accepted the chance of installing the proprietary drivers. They knocked out everything - not even the ethernet socket was usable. I was thinking I'd have to reinstall but then tried misko's and mrmksm's solutions - getting rid of bcmw-kernel-source and installing b43-firmware-installer and everything came back after a reboot. I used Synaptic for both operations. Many thanks to everyone who has contributed - and thanks to the Forum for keeping this rather old post available.
Lite Phil
"The ideal is the enemy of the good."
Linux Lite also installed on 8Gb desktop, Samsung N145 Netbook (2Gb) and Philips Freevents Core2Duo (2Gb) laptop for personal use and 3 Dells and 2 Acers for others
"The ideal is the enemy of the good."
Linux Lite also installed on 8Gb desktop, Samsung N145 Netbook (2Gb) and Philips Freevents Core2Duo (2Gb) laptop for personal use and 3 Dells and 2 Acers for others