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wingman015
November 22nd, 2011, 04:53 PM
I have a Lenovo Ideapad S10 and I am booting 11.10 from a USB drive. It did not have the correct wireless driver so I connected an Ethernet cable and it searched for and found a Broadcom STA Wireless Driver. I clicked on Activate and was then prompted to reboot.
Now when I reboot (from the usb), I get about half way thru and I get kicked out to the terminal window at the prompt;
root@ubuntu:~#

Any ideas?
I am currently reinstalling Ubuntu 11.10 onto my flash drive so that I can successfully boot up again and obtain the driver again.

Thanks,
Brent

wingman015
November 22nd, 2011, 05:10 PM
I booted up with the USB once again and it found the same driver again. I have not activated it yet until I hear from someone.
I'm writing this from Firefox in Ubuntu :-)

wingman015
November 22nd, 2011, 07:35 PM
I have successfully rebooted with the wireless driver downloaded. I still cannot make a wireless connection via wi-fi. It will not recognize 2 routers that are available.
Any ideas? My wireless switch is on.

wingman015
November 22nd, 2011, 09:19 PM
I have a BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY from Broadcom Corporation.
I have read several comments regarding blacklisting these wireless devices.
So far I have been unsuccessful in getting it to work. Can anyone help me?