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Old 04-29-2010, 09:35 AM   #16
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Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x4a942220

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 29663 238268016 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 29664 30401 5927985 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 29664 30401 5927953+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris
 
Old 04-29-2010, 09:39 AM   #17
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Sorry that was the wrong one.

kamon@kamon-laptop:~$ ls
Desktop Downloads Music Public Videos
Documents examples.desktop Pictures Templates
 
Old 04-29-2010, 10:58 AM   #18
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OK!!----so you can now enter commands in the terminal...

Please go back to my first post and run the commands to determine if you need a wireless driver, and--if necessary-- to see what your card is. If in doubt, post the results of the commands here.

Keep in mind that, with Ubuntu, you sometimes have to put "sudo" in front of a command (whenever administrator privileges are required.)
 
Old 04-29-2010, 11:24 AM   #19
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Right, this is what lspci got me:

kamon@kamon-laptop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphices Controller (rev 07)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio Device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI Bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI Bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI Bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)

Thats pretty much just a foreign language to me :S
 
Old 04-29-2010, 11:42 AM   #20
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I don't see a wireless device---in fact, I don't even see a regular Ethernet device. Here is a portion of mine:
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[root@mystical mherring]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 0c)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82566MM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
<<snipped>>
10:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61)
Try lspci again--this way:
Code:
sudo lspci | more
This will ensure that you see all of the output (hit the spacebar to see one page at a time) (You can also scroll up and down to be sure you see everything.)

How about iwconfig?

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Old 04-29-2010, 11:51 AM   #21
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iwconfig came back as no wireless extensions. These are the new things that came up for sudo lspci | more :
00.1f.2 SATA Controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00.1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
09.00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvel Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
0c:00.0 Network Controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)

I'm hoping that an Ethernet thing coming up is good??
 
Old 04-29-2010, 11:57 AM   #22
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YES!!

And so is the line containing Broadcom Network controller---that is your wireless!!

Now we know what your wireless is, and we know the driver is not installed. The next step is to search using the Ubuntu package manager (software center, whatever they call it). Just searching on "broadcom" should find something.

Also search here and on Google for "broadcom wireless linux ubuntu".

This has been solved many times, so have faith!!!
 
Old 04-29-2010, 11:58 AM   #23
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Thank you thank you thank you sooo much!!! You have no idea how grateful I am!!
 
Old 04-29-2010, 12:04 PM   #24
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Golly---you're WELCOME. But stay with us until it's totally solved!!
 
Old 04-29-2010, 12:09 PM   #25
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I will! Nothing came up on the software centre so I'm gonna try google. Fingers crossed ay!
 
Old 04-29-2010, 12:53 PM   #26
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Also search here and on Google for "broadcom wireless linux ubuntu".
I think for this question you want a much narrower google search:
+BCM4312 +ubuntu
and even that needs to be further limited to recent pages.

Then you probably need some knowledge to pick the ones that are still valid. I would guess this one:

http://dimitar.me/broadcom-wireless-...ubuntu-karmic/

But maybe the issue described there is already back under control in Ubuntu. In that case you would want to start at
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?ke...ic&section=all

But from there, I'm not sure how you install a "restricted" package with multiple dependencies through some other computer into a computer whose problem is lack of network access. (I would plug the laptop into a wired network in order to use ordinary package management to get the packages to fix the wireless. But maybe that isn't an option.)

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Old 04-29-2010, 12:55 PM   #27
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https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...Driver/bcm43xx

According to this, the driver IS available in Ubuntu repositories---I don't know why the SW center did not find it.
 
Old 04-29-2010, 01:12 PM   #28
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Wow, according to that page, it is even on the install CD, so you don't even need to kludge non wireless internet access.

They buried the good instructions half way down the page
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Step 1. Install the bcmwl-kernel-source package using the Synaptic Package Manager. First select Add CD-ROM from the edit menu to enable the install media as a package repository, then click on Reload to refresh the available packages list, ignore any internet/download errors. Now search for the bcmwl-kernel-source package and install.

Step 2: Under the desktop menu System > Administration > Hardware Drivers, the drivers can be activated for use.

Note: A computer restart may be required before using the wifi card.
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I don't know why the SW center did not find it.
I haven't used Ubuntu much, nor at all recently. So I'm not sure what "SW center" is. Debian based distributions have many different front ends to the same underlying software install system. In my opinion synaptic is the front end you should use and the rest are just pathways to confusion.

Different distributions bury the link to synaptic under different names in different places in the menu tree. If you don't know the GUI link to synaptic, you could always type sudo synaptic in a terminal window to start it.

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Old 04-29-2010, 03:50 PM   #29
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Right, I went on synaptic package manager, I put a blank cd-rom in and clicked add cd-rom, it didn't work and a message came up asking for the disc with ubuntu on it, so I put that in, did the reload thing, found bcmwl-kernal-source, downloaded it, installed it, went on system > admin > hardware drivers, selected broadcom b43 wireless driver and pressed activate. A message came up saying 'system error' this happened bout five times. I restarted the laptop and the same thing was happening. So I removed bcmwl-kernal-source and re-installed it, and now, even though it's saying it has successfully installed, it's not showing up on the hardware drivers list. I'm at my wits end and I can't take much more of this someone has to know how to fix this .

Also, somewhere during all this a box popped up saying something about softwares updates so I clicked ok because I can't see how anything can possibly f*** this laptop up any more, and that took two hours to complete ''/.

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Old 04-29-2010, 03:58 PM   #30
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the disc with ubuntu on it ... found bcmwl-kernal-source ... installed it ... 'system error'
Your other thread said you had a temporary wired internet connection for this laptop.

I don't see anything wrong with your description of installing that from the CD, but installing it from the default online repository may be better. So you may want to undo whatever you did to enable installing from the CD, then try again from online.

The google search described earlier hit a lot of content saying this driver was broken in some versions of Ubuntu. So far as I can tell you haven't told us the version. Can you post the output from
Code:
uname -a

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