[SOLVED] 9.10 Broadcom Wireless to Work

[jomtois]

Perhaps this will help someone out there.

I was using Jaunty fine on my laptop (Dell e1705) with wireless working. I installed 9.10 beta and could not get it to work. In jaunty I was using the Broadcom Wireless driver that showed up in System > Administration > Hardware drivers.

When I installed 9.10 as a fresh install from the live cd, it would list only the Broadcom Wireless driver. I kept choosing "Activate" and entering my password, but it would never activate. Having no network connectivity, I was unable get any updates.

However this worked for me:

1) Open Synaptic Pacakage Manager
2) Ensure 9.10 LiveCd is in CD drive
3) Settings > Repositories > Ubuntu Software
4) Check the installable from cd and close
5) Refresh
6) Search for "bcmwl-kernel-source"
7) Mark for installation
Install it
9) Reboot computer

That worked for me. It was activated Hardware Drivers now. Also, after doing this (I think because dkms installed with it) now the graphics drivers appeared in the Hardware Drivers scan, which hadn't before.

Basically, installing bcmwl-kernel-source was the key to success for me. Handily, it is on the livecd.

Jon

[novafluxx]

Originally Posted by jomtois Perhaps this will help someone out there. I was using Jaunty fine on my laptop (Dell e1705) with wireless working. I installed 9.10 beta and could not get it to work. In jaunty I was using the Broadcom Wireless driver that showed up in System > Administration > Hardware drivers. When I installed 9.10 as a fresh install from the live cd, it would list only the Broadcom Wireless driver. I kept choosing "Activate" and entering my password, but it would never activate. Having no network connectivity, I was unable get any updates. However this worked for me: 1) Open Synaptic Pacakage Manager 2) Ensure 9.10 LiveCd is in CD drive 3) Settings > Repositories > Ubuntu Software 4) Check the installable from cd and close 5) Refresh 6) Search for "bcmwl-kernel-source" 7) Mark for installation Install it 9) Reboot computer That worked for me. It was activated Hardware Drivers now. Also, after doing this (I think because dkms installed with it) now the graphics drivers appeared in the Hardware Drivers scan, which hadn't before. Basically, installing bcmwl-kernel-source was the key to success for me. Handily, it is on the livecd. Jon

I had similar issues, and resolved them exactly how you did. My wireless used to work out-of-the-box, but with 9.10 its never worked unless I've manually installed that package.

[MasterNetra]

Hope this is taken care in the final

[mlentink]

Originally Posted by jomtois Basically, installing bcmwl-kernel-source was the key to success for me. Handily, it is on the livecd. Jon

Would you have any clue on how to do this if you installed with usb-stick rather than cd?
I'm trying to do this on a Compaq mini 700 netbook

[2roombas]

Originally Posted by mlentink Would you have any clue on how to do this if you installed with usb-stick rather than cd? I'm trying to do this on a Compaq mini 700 netbook

Did you ever get an answer on this? I have this same no-wireless-now issue on my mini 9 after installing 9.10 with a usb-stick.

[redbook4574]

Originally Posted by 2roombas Did you ever get an answer on this? I have this same no-wireless-now issue on my mini 9 after installing 9.10 with a usb-stick.

I had the same problem with a packard bell netbook, I just connected via a cable and downloaded restricted drivers, after that I used the sta option and all was fine.

[meborc]

from USB, just browse to POOL->RESTRICTED->B->bcmwl.... and install the deb file from there

as i remember, you need to install 1 dependency first from the MAIN folder

USB has all the .deb files, so it is simple

[zenarcher]

Originally Posted by redbook4574 I had the same problem with a packard bell netbook, I just connected via a cable and downloaded restricted drivers, after that I used the sta option and all was fine.

This is the same way I resolved my problem with the Dell Mini 9.

Cheers,
zenarcher

[stiller]

Thanks jomtois, your suggestion worked for me.

[NachoKB]

I have the same problem, and will try installing that package tonight (it didn't occur to me, as even when connected via wired it kept failing, so I thought it didn't have anything to do with packages failing to install due to connectivity).

ref https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ey/+bug/449268

-- nachokb