Hi. I am here and I am pretty fed up. I installed 11.04 pretty much when it came out last year (2011) on a Lenovo notebook and for more than a year everything worked.
Then, I imagine after some so-called upgrade, my wireless quit working. Mind you, this was after a year of working without a problem.
This is the wireless network card:
Code:
04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
Previously, I believe I used
Code:
b43-fwcutter
firmware-b43-installer
and everything was great. Now, nothing works and I have wasted so much time -try at least 5 hours over many days - trying to get this thing to work again it's ridiculous.
BTW, the notebook works fine with a cable connection.
I have tried:
broadcom-sta-common & broadcom-sta-source
b43-fwcutter with the firmware-b43-lpphy-installer
I have made sure that b43xx cards are not blacklisted in any of the files in /etc/modprobe.d - I checked this whatever drivers I had installed.
I can plug an external USB wireless Cisco connector/card and the computer will recognize it. But I only tried that after everything else failed.
I'm guessing one of the updates I installed killed the wireless capability. Which is very frustrating. The entire "blacklist" thing is annoying beyond reason.
Meanwhile, if anyone has ANY ideas, please let me know. I have been using Linux and Ubuntu for almost a decade and never, ever has anything like this happened. I'm ready to turn the laptop into a Frisbee and heave it into the lake outside my home.
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