No wifi after fresh install 11.10

[abear]

I recently did a fresh install on my sons laptop HP Pavilion dv5000. Everything worked fine except the wifi. The system could see the wifi network adaptor (broadcom b43) however after a little exploring and research on the net I found that the drivers were not installed. I tried to install the drives as outlined at this site: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...Driver/bcm43xx. First I used - lspci -vvnn | grep 14e4 - this showed me what the network hardware was. I then entered:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

All this did for me was to remove the check box and the enable wireless in the network manager. I tested 10.04 using a liveCD and the wifi worked so what I ended up doing was installing 10.04 LTS and upgrading to Precise. There had to be an easier and less time consuming way to get the broadcom b43 driver installed. So for future reference, what are my options besides going back to a working copy of Kubuntu and updating from there?

[SecretCode]

Did you do this step (assuming you can get a temporary Ethernet connection)

The proprietary drivers can be activated under the desktop menu System > Administration > Hardware/Additional Drivers using an existing Internet connection (Ethernet or USB) for best results.

and did it find anything?

(Under KDE it's K > Applications > System > Additional Drivers)

[Detonate]

Same thing happened to me. Upgrade broke my Broadcom wireless on my old DV1000. I have not had time to figure out the solution yet, but as soon as I do, I will post it. I'm thinking it's about time to get a new wireless device for this old laptop. Broadcom has always been problematic.

[abear]

Interestly under 10.04 it did find the needed drivers for the Broadcom network device, however under 11.10 no broadcom drivers, the only thing "additional drivers" picked up as some drivers for a software modem which I had no use for but loaded them anyway.

[Detonate]

I gave up and ordered an new card for mine, definitely not a Broadcom chip, I think it is Intel. I have a Linksys USB wireless device that works out of the box, so I am not desperate to get the thing working. If the new card does not work, I'm only out $10. I'll just live with the Linksys.

[abear]

I gave up and ordered an new card for mine, definitely not a Broadcom chip, I think it is Intel. I have a Linksys USB wireless device that works out of the box, so I am not desperate to get the thing working. If the new card does not work, I'm only out $10. I'll just live with the Linksys.

Please post how you make out with the new wireless card. If it works out I may order one myself.

[Snowhog]

We need to know the 'specific' Broadcom driver in your rig. Open a console and type:

[COLOR=#000000]lspci -n | grep 14e4[/COLOR]

as well as

[COLOR=#000000]lspci | grep roadcom[/COLOR]

Paste the results.

[abear]

We need to know the 'specific' Broadcom driver in your rig. Open a console and type:

[COLOR=#000000]lspci -n | grep 14e4[/COLOR]

as well as

[COLOR=#000000]lspci | grep roadcom[/COLOR]

Paste the results.

Here is what I get for the first line: 06:02.0 0280: 14e4:4319 (rev 02)

and for the second: 06:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce 54g] 802.11a/b/g PCI Express Transceiver (rev 02)

Thank you for any help or suggestion you may offer.

[snowflake_nz]

Hi abear
I've got a hp pavilion dv6 and had the same problem with wifi. I followed this (look at the end of the article/1st comment) and this has seem to have solved my b43 wifi problems.
Cheers
http://almostconnecticut.net/linuxis...-with-kubuntu/

[abear]

Hi abear
I've got a hp pavilion dv6 and had the same problem with wifi. I followed this (look at the end of the article/1st comment) and this has seem to have solved my b43 wifi problems.
Cheers
http://almostconnecticut.net/linuxis...-with-kubuntu/

Great information, thank you for passing it along. I will defiantly give it a try if I run into the same problem on my next fresh install.

[Detonate]

Thanks to the link posted by snowflake_nz I finally got mine working. The card I bought would not work at all in my old laptop. Got a message at boot about it being unrecognized, and would not even let me boot up the computer until I removed it. This is a seven year old HP DV1000.

[snowflake_nz]

Hi Detonate
so glad the link worked. Pretty stoked because I'm usually the one in need of assistance ;-)

[ardvark71]

Hi abear
I've got a hp pavilion dv6 and had the same problem with wifi. I followed this (look at the end of the article/1st comment) and this has seem to have solved my b43 wifi problems.

Hi Snowflake...

Thank you for the link, I bookmarked it in case I ever install Ubuntu/Kubuntu on a system with an applicable Broadcom chipset. :-)

Regards...

[snowflake_nz]

Hey ardvark71
sorry for the tardy reply, but life has this nasty habit of taking over hey lol
Anyway, I'm glad I could help (I'm more of the needing help type).

Cheers

[Snowhog]

Great information, thank you for passing it along. I will defiantly give it a try if I run into the same problem on my next fresh install.

Does this imply that you solved your problem specified in this thread? If 'yes', I'll mark the thread as solved.