Thank you so much. The light just went on on my wireless card. I followed the instructions pointed to by my system log at the b43-Linux Wireless site. Ran into a problem with "make"with error "command not found". Googled the error,followed someone else's advice to install "build-essentials". Problem solved.

Hi and welcome!

Yes, build-essentials contains various compilers and related helpful applications. You need the compilers to run "make" and "make install". Those commands run scripts which compile the various pieces of source code.

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