Right ill give you a bit of a back story first. The other night i was attempting to sort out an old mp3 player i had. In order to do that i had to format the hard drive. In my haste to get it sorted i accidentally formatted my laptops hard drive and i lost everything including the operating system (I previously had Windows XP home edition). Anyway scince i'm a student and couldn't afford to fork out to purchase another copy of XP i thought i would give linux a shot.
Anyway i downloaded linux on a firends computer and burnt it to a CD and it all worked perfectly but the wireless didn't want to work. So you know i have an Acer aspire 3630 (spesifically a 3634WLMi) with a broardcom built in wireless adapter. Now having my wireless working is an important thing for me anyway i need it to connect to the internet at home and in uni. I have tried to read some guides etc because it seems im not the only one with this problem, but they just go straight over my head and in some cases i cant make heads nor tales of them.
What i have managed to do so far is get the little icon up in the corner of the screen that shows your internet conections and i clicked new connection and then wlan0, and put all of the router settings in. I then found under hardware drivers under applications, system. I went into that and it came up with broardcom B43 wireless driver. It wasn't activated so i clicked the button to do so and it downloaded it and installed it. After doing this the little wireless light on the front of the laptop lit up showing the wireless is swithced on. Prior to this it wasnt. Now when i click on the icon in the corner and click on the wirless network i set up it tries to connect but doesn't. And i'm really confused as what do do with ndiswrapper or whatever programmes meant to be used. I really have zero background knowledge of linux at all so if anyone is brave enough to try and explain it to me assume i know nothing about linux or how it works. I have tried to have a look at the linux wireless wiki and its just too complex for me.
Any help would be really appriciated because i need my laptop up and sorted asap.
I also posted this on the ubuntu forum
Thankyou.
Anyway i downloaded linux on a firends computer and burnt it to a CD and it all worked perfectly but the wireless didn't want to work. So you know i have an Acer aspire 3630 (spesifically a 3634WLMi) with a broardcom built in wireless adapter. Now having my wireless working is an important thing for me anyway i need it to connect to the internet at home and in uni. I have tried to read some guides etc because it seems im not the only one with this problem, but they just go straight over my head and in some cases i cant make heads nor tales of them.
What i have managed to do so far is get the little icon up in the corner of the screen that shows your internet conections and i clicked new connection and then wlan0, and put all of the router settings in. I then found under hardware drivers under applications, system. I went into that and it came up with broardcom B43 wireless driver. It wasn't activated so i clicked the button to do so and it downloaded it and installed it. After doing this the little wireless light on the front of the laptop lit up showing the wireless is swithced on. Prior to this it wasnt. Now when i click on the icon in the corner and click on the wirless network i set up it tries to connect but doesn't. And i'm really confused as what do do with ndiswrapper or whatever programmes meant to be used. I really have zero background knowledge of linux at all so if anyone is brave enough to try and explain it to me assume i know nothing about linux or how it works. I have tried to have a look at the linux wireless wiki and its just too complex for me.
Any help would be really appriciated because i need my laptop up and sorted asap.
I also posted this on the ubuntu forum
Thankyou.
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