HP pavilion dv6000, OS linux, problem: wireless driver, How do I make it work?
 

Hello, I hope you can help me troubleshoot this issue, I have a hp pavilion dv6000 and the wifi is not working, I have found a howto tutorial it says that I need to install ndiswrapper, it says that in order to avoid any installation problem I need to count with linux-source,linux-headers, I have looked for the kernel in terminal it says 2.6.35-22-generic,my question is where to download linux-source,linux-headers,and if you can help me to solve the whole problem so I can install the driver i need to make the wireless connection work?

Please post the output ofso that we can see which wireless device you have. I assume that you are using Ubuntu, please post if I am wrong here. This will help us to help you.

Thank you for answering, here is the information when typing the out put given:
carlos@carlos:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 01)
09:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
09:09.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
09:09.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
09:09.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)
carlos@carlos:~$

yes ubuntu 10.10 maverick, one of my friends installed this OS I am totally new using this operating system, I really need help with the wireless driver.

OK, I see that you have a Broadcom 4312 LP-PHY network chip. You have to install the package firmware-b43-lpphy-installer, you can do this either with the Synaptic package manager or via the command line withAlternatively you can use Ubuntu's hardware driver program, which should be available in the System-menu. After that you should be able to use the wireless with the network manager.

In any case you have to have a Internet connection for that, so use a wired connection for that.

My friend thank you very much, It worked I can see the blue light now in my notebook, thank you again, it was easy, you should come to Costa Rica and have some good vacations here jaja.