Help!!

[Adrenaline212]

So a while ago i went to try Ubuntu but was having some trouble with it so i went back to vista. So then a week ago my laptop started acting funny (1 day after my warranty expired as well) and then it just totally died out. HP says they can send me boot discs for 40 bucks, not worth it and i received the Ubuntu Cd in the mail as well, and now i need some major help trying to get my laptop wireless to work because University has already started and my main work machine needs Ubuntu on it. The first thing so far im noticing that i cannot detect my wireless network, my laptop is an HP pavilion dv2000 (2410ca to be specific). Can anyone guide me in the right direction with this problem!?!?

[Adrenaline212]

I know its only been an hour but are there any takers??

[ilrudie]

You may need madwifi. Also it would help a lot to know what kind of wifi chip is in your laptop. Post the results of lspci | grep [w,W]ireless If that does not show any results just post the results of lspci by itself. Once you know what chip you have you can search the forums for matching or similar chips or search google.

[Adrenaline212]

This is the result of typing in the code

[w,W]ireless
00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51 [Geforce 6150 Go] (rev a2)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0a.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PMU (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev f1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev f1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 02)
05:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
05:09.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
05:09.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 0a)
05:09.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 05)
05:09.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff)

[ilrudie]

Looks like they got just what you need here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=769990

[Crafty Kisses]

Post the results of this command: lshw -C network