Hey I've been trying to get wireless on my new HP Mini 5101 netbook for quite a while now...
i've tried using the b43 / ndiswrapper but nothing has worked thus far and i've been just doing a fresh install after each successive fail
here's some info:
08:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Device 4353 (rev 01)
20:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Device 436c (rev 10)
ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:25:b3:7f:54:99
inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::225:b3ff:fe7f:5499/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1815 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1436 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2084349 (2.0 MB) TX bytes:227018 (227.0 KB)
Interrupt:19
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:240 (240.0 B) TX bytes:240 (240.0 B)
iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
pan0 no wireless extensions
i can post any other information too. i'm pretty new to this so any help is greatly appreciated. thanks in advance =]
FIXED
follow this guide
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...f#Introduction
but use
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp44001-44500/sp44185.exe
at the wget part
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