Wireless Networking

[ghettosamson]

Good Day. I just installed ubuntu gutsy gibbons, 64bit. Yeah, i got flash player to work. now i wanna connect to my wireless network. How can i do this? I can connect thru mu ethernet adapter, but i need to be able to connect to various networks as this is a laptop and i am a college student that uses wifi a heck of alot. I dual booted this with xp, but i wanna get more familiarity with linux, so if anyone can please help me to connect to the internet or configure my wireless. Gracias everyone. im semi new to linux and i like it. like the command prompt.

[saru411]

it would help to post your laptops specs and network card make/model

[ghettosamson]

*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM4312 802.11a/b/g
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
logical name: eth1
version: 01
serial: 00:19:7e:67:91:f8
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bcm43xx driverversion=2.6.22-14-generic latency=0 link=no module=bcm43xx multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b/g
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:08:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:19:b9:7d:d2:70
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=1.01 duplex=full ip=10.1.1.54 latency=64 link=yes module=b44 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
Alright, that is what it says when it type sudo lshw -C network in the command prompt.
I have an inspiron 1501, amd 64x2 turion, 1gb ram, 60gb hd, anything else needed.Also, im running gutsy gibbons

[binary_bob]

Hi ghettosamson,
Have you installed the proprietary driver for the broadcom card?
system>admin>restricted drivers manager.
Enable firmware for Broadcom 43xx family chipset.
when asked; choose the online install, and the preset location.
When this has finished, click on the network connection applet on the top bar and available networks should be shown.
Let me know what you get.

[ghettosamson]

ok, so the firmware was installed and so was the driver. I can now see my available wireless networks. my friend, who has the password for the network is bathing so i will see if it actually connects in a sec. im betting it will. thank you binary bob. i will update on connectivity

[ghettosamson]

alright my man. i am connected sweet. thank you for your help.

[binary_bob]

Glad to be of service ghettosamson.
Welcome to the 64bit world.

[saru411]

congrats on your first ubuntu install! and welcome to the land of 64 bit processing!