[SOLVED] Broadcom wireless broke after updates

[crjackson]

I believe it does.

I installed it. It didn't really do anything for me though.

[vexingmodstwo]

I installed it. It didn't really do anything for me though.

Did you try a manual configuration for the wireless connection instead of the AutoDHCP?

[crjackson]

Did you try a manual configuration for the wireless connection instead of the AutoDHCP?

Yes. I didn't really have much time to tinker around before going to work though. I'll try again after work or tomorrow. I'm considering just buying an intel card from ebay since they have good support.

[smsmith050]

I have no option to enable wireless in the network-manager-applet.
I have wireless

30:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)

iwconfig sees the wireless

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSIDff/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:270 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Power Managementff
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

lshw -C network

*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:30:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 03
serial: 00:1a:73:4e:59:5b
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+bcmwl5 driverversion=1.52+Broadcom,09/20/2007, 4.170. latency=0 link=no module=ndiswrapper multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g

I can run iwlist wlan0 scanning and see networks near me.

but the network-manager-applet never sees the wireless interface

/proc/net# more wireless
Inter-| sta-| Quality | Discarded packets | Missed | WE
face | tus | link level noise | nwid crypt frag retry misc | beacon | 22
wlan0: 0000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.24-17-generic #1 SMP Thu May 1 14:31:33 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

Can anyone tell me how to make the network-manager-applet see the wireless interface?

thanks

[smsmith050]

I said network-manager-applet but it really is nm-applet.
nm-applet does not see my wireless card wlan0
wireless was working fine until I tried to connect to work using vpn.

[crjackson]

Did you try a manual configuration for the wireless connection instead of the AutoDHCP?

More tinkering... Still no change... I got some kernel updates today but they made do difference.

[crjackson]

Well I don't have time to wait for a kernel fix on this one. I ordered an intel pro wireless mini pci card (2200bg) a few minutes ago. I'll use the pcmcia card until it gets here. I pulled one from my wife's laptop and it works better on Ubuntu than the broadcom ever did.

[crjackson]

Issues solved by installing an Intel Wireless Card.