Inspiron 6000

Posted Thu, 2005-10-20 09:53 by SDPenguin

I was so happy with Breezy on my desktop I thought I'd try my Dell Inspiron 6000 on my wireless G network. All went happily with the install. Power settings, sound, graphics all perfect. The hitch came when I tried to setup my wireless connection and my Broadcom based Dell 1370 mini-pci was not recognized. I have made several attempts to get NSISWrapper to work without success. I'm not losing faith however. I'm so new I just need more time to fine tune this and I'm sure it will work, everyone on the forums writes of success.
Another problem is DVD playback; movies. I will try Mplayer and see if that solves my problem. I'd appreciate any feedback on my wireless and DVD problems. Enjoying Ubuntu Breezy Badger immensely!

Comments

DVD issue

by MikeTT - 2005-10-20 16:27

Firstly, a warm welcome to this site :)

Regarding your DVD problem: I'm using VLC (VideoLANClient) as my favourite media player application. It has built in codecs for nearly everything (DivX, Xvid, MP3, MPEG, etc.), so you don't have to install them manually.

I have written a short manual how to install VLC. It's very simple. I have, whatsoever, no experience with the NSISWrapper.

VLC (VideoLANClient)

by SDPenguin - 2005-10-21 13:02

Thanks to MikeTT my DVD problems were easily solved. I had jerky playback and had to enable dma on my dvd drive which is covered in the Ubuntu guide. Now DVD playback is smooth and works great! Thanks Mike!
http://ubuntuguide.org/

Noob question

by Skurge - 2006-10-27 16:41

I have the same card (1370 Mini) in my b120.  Does anyone know how to enable this card to function?  Being a total Linux Noob, I could use the help.Thanks,Skurge

Dell Inspiron WIFI

by usul - 2007-08-08 18:23

To find out how to install wifi on dell inspiron 6000 see http://wikisos.org/wiki/Ubuntu_7.04:How_to_install_Dell_Inspiron_Wireles...