ok ubuntu tells me i can run the card if i use fwcutter so i went into windows downloaded it and installed it in ubuntu of my usb drive but when i try to enable my wireless card fwcutter says iut needs to download something but cant because i have no interenet access in ubuntu until i get my wireless card its a desktop and there is no wired connection in my apartment and i don't know anyone i can take my computer to do it via a wired connetion anyone have any ideas i can try? im a newbe but i have some knowledge and am willing to learn

ok bro. fwcutter's not the thing that drives your wireless card - it converts the windows driver to do that. go into windows, get the driver for your card from the manufacturer's website, and put it on the USB. take it to ubuntu and feed it to fwcutter. good luck man

ok duh lol i shoulda known that but i didn't and in a way maybe i did since i already downloaded it and put it on my usb but im not sure how to feed the driver into the fwcytter program

aite. say the driver is called driver.sys:

bcm43xx-fwcutter driver.sys

then there's further instructions for how to install the firmware here:

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

let me know if that's too technical or whatever, cause i can probably synopsise. - L

ok i must of missed a step because i did
nemesis@nemesis-desktop:~$ sudo bcm43xx-fwcutter '/home/nemesis/Desktop/bcmwl5.sys'
[sudo] password for nemesis:

filename : bcmwl5.sys
version : 3.100.46.0
MD5 : 38ca1443660d0f5f06887c6a2e692aeb
microcodes : 2 4 5
pcms : 4 5

microcode : 2
revision : 0x0123
patchlevel : 0x0020
date : 2004-11-16
time : 07:12:11

microcode : 4
revision : 0x0123
patchlevel : 0x0020
date : 2004-11-16
time : 07:12:11

microcode : 5
revision : 0x0123
patchlevel : 0x0020
date : 2004-11-16
time : 07:12:11

extracting bcm43xx_microcode2.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_microcode4.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_microcode5.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_pcm4.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_pcm5.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval01.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval02.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval03.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval04.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval05.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval06.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval07.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval08.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval09.fw ...
extracting bcm43xx_initval10.fw ...
nemesis@nemesis-desktop:~$
and its not working so ami not cmpleting or am i not starting in the right place?

yeah, you're not done with it yet. what you just did, is pull the firmware for your wireless card out of the windows driver it was all packaged up in; now you gotta actually install it to your card. follow the instructions in the 'firmware installation' section of that link up there:

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Dr...reinstallation