I have a Dell Inspiron 1520 with the Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card, one that has given many Linux users big headaches.
After trying many different approaches suggested all over the web, and gathering clues in many Ubuntu forum posts, I finally worked out this solution:
First of all you must check if you have the correct card:
lspci -nn | grep 14e4
Result: 05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI [14e4:4311 (rev 01)]
Then proceed to the first step:
1. blacklist bcm43xx
echo blacklist bcm43xx | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
2. install ndiswrapper and related files
sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 ndisgtk
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