I've tried to pursue some of the advice on some of the other threads with no luck, including the one that says it's a tutorial for my card. At thie stage, I think I've done so many things to the settings on the computer that I can't make heads or tails of anything. Network manager detects no wireless and hardware drivers won't load STA or b43. If no one can help, can I just reinstall 9.1, keeping my user data? Should I just buy a new computer?
1. Dell Inspiron 1545
2. Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
3.
ifconfig:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:25:64:49:af:58
inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::225:64ff:fe49:af58/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5535 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4768 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:5661849 (5.6 MB) TX bytes:775071 (775.0 KB)
Interrupt:18
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:48889 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:48889 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:7586774 (7.5 MB) TX bytes:7586774 (7.5 MB)
iwconfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
4. lsmod - I don't know how to refine this search
Module Size Used by
binfmt_misc 8356 1
ppdev 6688 0
b44 28620 0
mii 5212 1 b44
joydev 10272 0
snd_hda_codec_idt 59844 1
iptable_filter 3100 0
ip_tables 11692 1 iptable_filter
x_tables 16544 1 ip_tables
snd_hda_intel 26920 2
snd_hda_codec 75708 2 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel
snd_hwdep 7200 1 snd_hda_codec
ssb 44868 1 b44
pcmcia 36808 1 ssb
pcmcia_core 35792 2 ssb,pcmcia
snd_pcm_oss 37920 0
snd_mixer_oss 16028 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 75296 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_dummy 2656 0
lib80211 6528 0
dell_wmi 2564 0
dell_laptop 8128 0
dcdbas 7292 1 dell_laptop
psmouse 56500 0
serio_raw 5280 0
uvcvideo 59080 0
videodev 36736 1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat 14496 2 uvcvideo,videodev
snd_seq_oss 28576 0
snd_seq_midi 6432 0
snd_rawmidi 22208 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 6940 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 50224 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_mid i_event
snd_timer 22276 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 6920 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi ,snd_seq
snd 59204 16 snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_ hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_os s,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 7264 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 9156 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
lp 8964 0
parport 35340 2 ppdev,lp
fbcon 36640 72
tileblit 2460 1 fbcon
font 8124 1 fbcon
bitblit 5372 1 fbcon
softcursor 1756 1 bitblit
usb_storage 52576 0
sky2 46560 0
i915 221064 3
drm 159584 3 i915
i2c_algo_bit 5760 1 i915
intel_agp 27484 2 i915
agpgart 34988 2 drm,intel_agp
video 19380 1 i915
output 2780 1 video
5. dsmeg - this looks like wireless info:
[ 29.871410] wl: module license 'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel.
[ 29.871414] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[ 29.872197] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 29.872199] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 29.892266] b43-pci-bridge 0000:0c:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 29.892281] b43-pci-bridge 0000:0c:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 29.896121] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 29.896124] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
6. Network configuration:
*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM4312 802.11b/g
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0
resources: irq:17 memory:f69fc000-f69fffff
7. iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
8. Ubuntu 9.1
9. Kernel - 2.6.31-16-generic i686
10. restarting the network:
* Reconfiguring network interfaces... Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.
[ OK
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