I'm running 12.04 on a Dell Latitude D820. For several months the wireless card (a Dell branded broadcom device) has not worked. I spent a few hours working on it at the time, and never got back to it.
Two weeks ago the real trouble began. A message popped up telling me that my package manager was broken and I should either use synaptic (which does not load for some reason) or run dpkg --config -a to fis the issue.
Unfortunately, dpkg --config -a hangs after it seems to either uninstall or reinstall the wireless drivers.
I have been unable to get any apt commands to run, and everything I can find seems to lead me right back to dpkg --config -a.
My Kernel is 3.2.0-54-generic and I don't know what other information to provide. I'm somewhere between newbie and end user so please be patient with me friends :)
Two weeks ago the real trouble began. A message popped up telling me that my package manager was broken and I should either use synaptic (which does not load for some reason) or run dpkg --config -a to fis the issue.
Unfortunately, dpkg --config -a hangs after it seems to either uninstall or reinstall the wireless drivers.
I have been unable to get any apt commands to run, and everything I can find seems to lead me right back to dpkg --config -a.
My Kernel is 3.2.0-54-generic and I don't know what other information to provide. I'm somewhere between newbie and end user so please be patient with me friends :)