Compaq c500 / Broadcom BCM4311 wireless

[Arrowman2]

Hello,

I'am new to Ubuntu, and I have been trying to get my wifi card running with Ubuntu 12.04. When I type the command lshw -C network, I can see that the card has no logical name, so I guess the driver is not installed properly. Could anyone help me further? I tried installing the Broadcom linux driver from the Broadcom website, but it seems that the code in this installation is not working for the latest versions of Ubuntu.

*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:06:00.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=wl latency=0
resources: irq:18 memory:80000000-80003fff

Thanks,

[varunendra]

Welcome to the forums Arrowman2 !

If you have a wired connection available, connect to it and do -

sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer

Enter the above commands in a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T), then disconnect the wired connection and try to connect via wireless. Do a restart if required.

Post back the result. Thanks!

[Arrowman2]

Thanks very much, after a restrart the wifi works perfectly now