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http://ubuntuforums.org – I had a dell laptop with windows vista on it but then I wrote over it with ubuntu and now my wireless won’t work that was built into the computer. Any suggestion? (Hardware)

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Submitted by dayu on 04/02/2010 – Made popular on 04/02/2010

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