Can't get broadcom to work, Dell 1501

[Guest]

Hello I'm new to Kubuntu and Linux in general. I'm assembling a laptop for my mother and had Ubunutu on it but it was so so slow. Kubununtu is much faster. Under additionall drivers it shows broadcom activated but no wifi? The tab is grayed out! I have googled everywhere. What do I do? What do I click on? This is so confusing and I don't want to have to go back to Windowz just because of this. I have the bw cutter thing but I clicked on all the files and they just pop up a bunch of words. Please help!!!!!

[arochester]

Look here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...Driver/bcm43xx

Scroll down to: Installing b43 drivers

[ardvark71]

Hi Jimmy...

Welcome to the forums

In case arochester's suggestion doesn't work, you can also try this one. One of our members, snowflake_nz, posted it a while back.

Regards...

[UnLead2D]

Open Konsole and issue "lspci"
You should have an output similar to this:

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev 11)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 IDE Controller
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc SB400 AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)
06:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
06:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

The words on bold is the one that you should look for. Then there is the name of your wireless card. Send me a PM of your Broadcom wireless card. From there I might be able to help you.