I've tried all the advice I can find on this forum, including using ndiswrapper to install a fresh driver for the wireless card and editing the network interfaces file, but the wireless connection just won't work (I'm using a wired connection now). I'm a noob (cf. my user name!) and am at wit's end. Any help from those more experienced much appreciated.
Thanks. Details:
The command ~$ sudo lshw -C network gives the following (note the "Network DISABLED" statement near the end):
*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0b:00.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0 module=ssb
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:19:b9:5a:d3:cb
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=2.0 duplex=full ip=192.168.1.4 latency=64 link=yes module=ssb multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:19:7d:8c:9b:73
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
ifconfig gives me (keeping in mind that I'm wired in):
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:b9:5a:d3:cb
inet addr:192.168.1.4 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::219:b9ff:fe5a:d3cb/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1244 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1274 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1106140 (1.0 MB) TX bytes:260689 (254.5 KB)
Interrupt:22
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:1674 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1674 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:83700 (81.7 KB) TX bytes:83700 (81.7 KB)
And the network interfaces file reads as follows:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto eth0
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