Lazy how-to
If you find yourself with a Dell XPS M1210 with the BCM4328 (rev 01) wireless, just install Ubuntu 10.04 and it'll work if it didn't before. What I did was:
1) Go to http://www.ubuntu.com then download via bit torrent (took about 15 minutes. ~500-1.2mb/s) Make sure it's the 32bit version even though it's a dual core processor it's still 32bit. I didn't realize this at first.
2) Burn disc & restart
3) Boot into the desktop to try it out and install the restricted wifi drivers. It detected the wifi network and said it connect but I couldn't ping successfully.
4) Restart and everything should work fine. Make sure you update of course.
1) Go to http://www.ubuntu.com then download via bit torrent (took about 15 minutes. ~500-1.2mb/s) Make sure it's the 32bit version even though it's a dual core processor it's still 32bit. I didn't realize this at first.
2) Burn disc & restart
3) Boot into the desktop to try it out and install the restricted wifi drivers. It detected the wifi network and said it connect but I couldn't ping successfully.
4) Restart and everything should work fine. Make sure you update of course.