hi, i've been told that my wireless card is being recognized as another ethernet connection or something possible. not sure if this is exactly the problem just what someone suggested. if anyone knows of a quick fix please help. i am newer to linux so please help me out with the coding. i am using pepppermint ice

also blacklisted as broadcom tells you too for the sta driver b43,b43legacy,ssb

iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11 Access Point: Not-Associated
Link Quality:5 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0



sudo lshw -C Network



*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth1
version: 01
serial: 00:25:56:39:81:27
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=5.60.48.36 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
resources: irq:18 memory:f0200000-f0203fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:21:cc:3a:30:55
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full ip=192.168.1.117 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
resources: irq:43 ioport:a000(size=256) memory:f0410000-f0410fff memory:f0400000-f040ffff memory:f0420000-f043ffff

Is it a problem to have the wireless card show up as eth1? I've had a machine that worked that way, but it never seemed to cause any problems.

I also have one of that crappy Broadcom devices in my laptop, and it is also shown as eth1. Before switching to the sta-driver I had installed the b43-driver and it was shown as wlan0. But I don't have any problems with that, works just fine.
Keep in mind that you have to install the firmware for that device.

yeah, i don't have any clue what the problem is. i have used sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source and it said it was activated, and also uninstalled from synaptic and reinstalled, and just used the normal hardware drivers selected to download by ethernet

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11 Access Point: Not-Associated
Link Quality:5 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0

the sta driver is activated right now and no wireless found

As already asked before, do you have the firmware installed. According to your device you need either firmware-b43-installer or firmware-b43-lpphy-installer.

my problem has partially been solved. well solved really. i found a thread about rfkill list and rfkill unblock all.

the machine has a soft block on it. some little simple command fixed it. however... the laptop isnt always saving this command change after i open and close terminal. sometimes i reboot the computer and the wifi automatically connects, and sometimes it needs me to put the rfkill unblock all command in again. the soft block gets back on.

so wifi is working now but just not saving correctly for some reason. i appreciated everyones help and input

I have a broadcom 4312 based adaptor in Dell Inspiron 1720 which works fine with Ubuntu 11.04 . but wireless interface is detected as eth1 instead of wlan0 or something similar. Any workarounds?

So what is your actual problem? Doesn't it work as eth1? I have the same chip, also as eth1 and it works flawlessly.