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    Baffled by wi-fi

    Hi
    After installing Kubuntu 11.04 I realized that it had not loaded a module for my built in wi-fi card. I poked about a bit but didn't see any way of doing this from the GUI. I didn't want give up so I tried a few different USB wi-fi devices- nothing was recognized. Then I thought that I could use a windows driver to download the proper packages but apparently even ndiswrapper isn't included on the CD. So I can't "sudo apt-get" until I have a network connection and I can't have a network connection until I can ."sudo apt-get". Am I missing something?
    My usual distro is PCLinuxOS, on the same machine it boots live or from HD and connects automatically so there's nothing that's incompatible with Linux.

    Thank you
    Frank
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    Re: Baffled by wi-fi

    Hi Frank...

    Welcome to the forums

    You mentioned you have a built-in wireless chipset or card. Could you open a terminal and run:

    Code:
    lspci
    and post the results?

    Also, did Jockey (otherwise known as "Hardware Drivers") give you any proprietary driver options? You can view Ubuntu's version of this program here.

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      Re: Baffled by wi-fi

      Hi
      lspci reports the device as "Broadcom 4318 (Air Force One 54g)" ; I've also tried USB and PcCards by Linksys, Dell etc. without success. I wonder if it would help if I took the back off the laptop and installed an Intel-based chipset?
      jockey reports no proprietary drivers are in use and that it is unable to update it's indexes because there is no Internet connection- no surprise!

      Thank you
      Frank
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        Re: Baffled by wi-fi

        An Intel-based chipset would have an open source driver. I did it on my HP netbook, which originally had a Broadcom chipset.

        edit: Don't try this at home on an HP machine - HP whitelists some or most WLAN cards in BIOS on netbooks and laptops. I have no idea why, but I had to find a hacked BIOS with the whitelist removed to get the Intel 6200 card in this netbook to work.
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          Re: Baffled by wi-fi

          The 4318 is a not a "legacy" chip and so requires the b43 driver. You should make sure that the wl driver is not loaded. IF lsmod shows the wl driver in the listing you should blacklist it. Otherwise, you can
          sudo modprobe -r b43
          then do
          sudo iwlist scanning
          to see if your wireless shows up. If it does you can use yur network manager to configure it.

          P.S. -- I forgot to add, if b43 does not work then perhaps you may have to install the b43-fwcutter first, but to do that you need a cable connection, since your wireless is not working.
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            Re: Baffled by wi-fi

            Sorry if this sounds really stupid, but did you notice that the network manager is now a plasma-widget and does not appear in the system tray anymore? You have to add it to you taskbar or desktop manually. It took me a while to figure that out...
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              Re: Baffled by wi-fi

              Originally posted by Chopstick
              Sorry if this sounds really stupid, but did you notice that the network manager is now a plasma-widget and does not appear in the system tray anymore? You have to add it to you taskbar or desktop manually. It took me a while to figure that out...
              ? on what ver. hear on 10.04 & 11.04 it is still in the system tray ?

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                Re: Baffled by wi-fi

                11.04 - at least on mine, which is a clean install. KDE 4.6.2.
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