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I should have listened to you when you suggested trying to use the Broadcom STA driver with 11.04!!!

I reinstalled Ubuntu instead of troubleshooting why my Internet didn't work anymore (Ubuntu...

Every driver I've tried that claims to be compatible loads up the
"bcmwl5.inf" or "bcmwl6.inf".

From what I've learned, the bcmwl6 is the Vista driver for the wireless card and bcmwl5 is the XP...

Earlier, I was at a friends house testing the wireless. It doesn't work on any WPA/WPA2 encrypted networks.

I found out that the reason the original driver I've been using with ndiswrapper (the...

I just tried connecting at my friend's place whose router is secured by WEP. It works perfectly so I guess WPA2 is the problem

EDIT:
I don't think the native Broadcom driver will work any better...

Sorry, I haven't been busy with midterms so I wasn't able to try those commands after the wifi disconnected.

So after installing 11.04, if I disable the security settings on my router, I can...

MAC address filtering on my router is turned off. I checked and it's never been on.

When I disabled the security, the driver worked!! But it only loaded up two websites (that weren't cached on my...

I've tried compiling from source but I get the same results.

EDIT:
I've installed the driver you posted.
Here is what I get:

~$ dmesg | grep -e ndis -e wlan
[ 13.786564] ndiswrapper...

I disabled my routers security settings but it still doesn't connect.

When using WICD, it gets stuck on "None: Validating authentication" and then tells me bad password, but thats definitely not...

YES!! The drivers I found on that site actually kinda work. Thank you so much for your help so far. I don't think you've been slow to respond at all

Ubuntu will now detect wireless networks, BUT...

I agree. The STA driver has given me really poor internet speeds.

I can't detect any networks even though ndiswrapper says that the wireless driver is uploaded. I even used the working driver...

That's the driver I originally had installed when I first had Ubuntu. I went to System > Administration > Additional Drivers and installed the Broadcom STA Wireless Driver. But the speeds I get...

Thank you so much for the reply. I've been trying to fix this for months. I'm using ndiswrapper because the native Broadcom STA driver provided is really slow. I can't even reach 100kb when...

Thank you Pytheas for this amazing guide!

Do you think you could help me out? I followed your guide and still can't get the driver to work.
I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 32-bit. Ndiswrapper says...

I've been using Ubuntu for months now, and love it except for the fact that I'm getting poor speeds while using wireless.

For a little background information: I have a Dell XPS m1530 with a...