Good idea josephmills..
Here we go with a little explanation. I have tested Natty 11.04 on my Dell D620 from the first Alpha and I was able to use the the STA driver at first, but kernel upgrades cause the STA driver to fail for me. So I ended up using the b43 driver as you will see.
Code:
bigdad@bigdad-Latitude-D620:~$ lspci -vnn | grep 14e4
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1600] (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4312] (rev 01)
Code:
igdad@bigdad-Latitude-D620:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=11.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=natty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 11.04"
bigdad@bigdad-Latitude-D620:~$
Code:
bigdad@bigdad-Latitude-D620:~$ lsmod | grep b43
b43 296610 0
mac80211 257001 1 b43
cfg80211 156212 2 b43,mac80211
ssb 45942 1 b43
bigdad@bigdad-Latitude-D620:~$
Code:
bigdad@bigdad-Latitude-D620:~$ dmesg | grep b43
[ 1.523316] b43-pci-bridge 0000:0c:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 1.523330] b43-pci-bridge 0000:0c:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 14.382966] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4311 WLAN found (core revision 10)
[ 14.512249] Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
[ 14.512278] Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
[ 14.512306] Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
[ 16.040057] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10)
bigdad@bigdad-Latitude-D620:~$
What I have installed for my wireless:
firmware-b43-installer (please note I do not have the lpphy-installer) with14e4:4312
b43-fwcutter
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