03-03-2014, 11:38 PM
Well, it tells me that Zorin is not finding the wireless card (at least not this time, based on your posted output). The TI PCI1420 is a mini-PCI cardbus adapter. This is *probably* where a mini-PCI wireless card is installed, such as the Truemobile 1150 I found in Dell's specs for your system. lspci should show all of the information on the wireless card, however, and this is not present.
The main problem, IMHO, is that the card was never very well supported under Linux. Now that it has some serious age on it there's not much impetus to provide better support. I guess I'm asking whether you want to continue trying to get this particular card to work, or if you might be open to trying a PCMCIA or USB wireless adapter. If you pick the right device it's going to be a lot less trouble than banging on with the Truemobile card.
Last thing - since the kernels in both Linux Lite and Zorin are not identifying the card it could also be that the card has stopped working. Since it was working under Zorin previously I can't explain why it's no longer showing up in the lspci output under Zorin any other way.
Thanks
The main problem, IMHO, is that the card was never very well supported under Linux. Now that it has some serious age on it there's not much impetus to provide better support. I guess I'm asking whether you want to continue trying to get this particular card to work, or if you might be open to trying a PCMCIA or USB wireless adapter. If you pick the right device it's going to be a lot less trouble than banging on with the Truemobile card.
Last thing - since the kernels in both Linux Lite and Zorin are not identifying the card it could also be that the card has stopped working. Since it was working under Zorin previously I can't explain why it's no longer showing up in the lspci output under Zorin any other way.
Thanks