venture68
June 1st, 2008, 02:37 PM
I've read endless posts on this forum. Tried tons of different things. Disabled security on my home network. I just can't get Ubuntu to connect wirelessly. Unfortunately, this is a deal breaker for me since this laptop is upstairs away from our router.
So, here's my last attempt to get this to work before going back to XP. I can't spend any more time getting this to work. I *WANT* to use it, but I can't if wifi won't work. So I'm now begging for help. :lolflag:
I've installed a fresh copy (many many many times) of 8.04. It tells me about some proprietary drivers which I download. I reboot. My WiFi light is on. No connectivity to the network though.
Under Network manager wired and wireless are in roaming mode. When I pull down the tray icon I see that I am connected via wired mode. Under that it says Wireless Networks with nothing listed. I see Connect to Other Wireless Network and Create New Wireless Network.
Here's is some info that I see is usually asked for on the forums:
lshw -C network
*-network:0
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: 00:14:22:ee:58:12
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=2.0 ip=192.168.0.153 latency=64 module=ssb multicast=yes
*-network:1
description: Network controller
product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 3
bus info: pci@0000:03:03.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=64 module=ssb
*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:14:a5:4f:5b:20
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
lspci | grep Broadcom
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
03:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
lspci -n | grep '14e4:43'
03:03.0 0280: 14e4:4318 (rev 02)
lsb_release -d
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Anyway, if you need to know anything else, I am new to Linux and Ubuntu (so far I love it except for this issue) so just tell me what to do to help diagnose the problem.
Thank you so much in advance.
So, here's my last attempt to get this to work before going back to XP. I can't spend any more time getting this to work. I *WANT* to use it, but I can't if wifi won't work. So I'm now begging for help. :lolflag:
I've installed a fresh copy (many many many times) of 8.04. It tells me about some proprietary drivers which I download. I reboot. My WiFi light is on. No connectivity to the network though.
Under Network manager wired and wireless are in roaming mode. When I pull down the tray icon I see that I am connected via wired mode. Under that it says Wireless Networks with nothing listed. I see Connect to Other Wireless Network and Create New Wireless Network.
Here's is some info that I see is usually asked for on the forums:
lshw -C network
*-network:0
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: 00:14:22:ee:58:12
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=2.0 ip=192.168.0.153 latency=64 module=ssb multicast=yes
*-network:1
description: Network controller
product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 3
bus info: pci@0000:03:03.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=64 module=ssb
*-network
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:14:a5:4f:5b:20
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
lspci | grep Broadcom
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
03:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
lspci -n | grep '14e4:43'
03:03.0 0280: 14e4:4318 (rev 02)
lsb_release -d
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Anyway, if you need to know anything else, I am new to Linux and Ubuntu (so far I love it except for this issue) so just tell me what to do to help diagnose the problem.
Thank you so much in advance.