i have ubuntu 8.04 and am using my drivers with ndiswrapper. i can detect wireless networks, but cant connect to them. sometimes, however, i do get a wireless connection.

edit: could a mod kindly move my thread to wireless networking subsection?

sean@sean-laptop:~$ lshw -C network
WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
PCI (sysfs)
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 01
serial: 00:16:cf:3d:0d:69
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+bcmwl5 driverversion=1.52+Broadcom,10/12/2006, 4.100. latency=0 module=ndiswrapper multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:15:c5:4a:16:69
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=2.0 ip=192.168.1.101 latency=64 module=ssb multicast=yes

sean@sean-laptop:~$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:c5:4a:16:69
inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::215:c5ff:fe4a:1669/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:109 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:167 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:115862 (113.1 KB) TX bytes:20962 (20.4 KB)
Interrupt:17

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:1446 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1446 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:72300 (70.6 KB) TX bytes:72300 (70.6 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:cf:3d:0d:69
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:61 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:6161 (6.0 KB) TX bytes:7123 (6.9 KB)
Interrupt:17 Memory:dfcfc000-dfd00000

sean@sean-laptop:~$
sean@sean-laptop:~$ uname -r
2.6.24-19-generic

Hello viper4.

Are you using any kind of security on your network? (say WEP, WPA, or WPA2?)