dfrandin
May 3rd, 2012, 08:34 PM
I've just tried two clean installs of 12.04 (Desktop/64bit). Both were on the same machine/same hardware (two different harddrives). Both installs went error-free, but after completion, the onboard ethernet connection shows up in network manager, as does the installed Sprint GSM broadband modem, but the installed Broadcom BCM4311 802.11.b/g WLAN does not, ie: No "wireless network" entries. The "hardware drivers" shows that the Broadcom STA wireless "blob" driver is loaded and active. lspci also shows the card correctly. lsmod shows the wl module loaded.
The second install I added the MATE repo and installed MATE (I detest Unity/Gnome3), and MATE's network manager doesn't show any wireless entries either.
The Dell laptop these two installs were done on, normally runs Ubuntu 10.04/64bit flawlessly with the same hardware that seems to be borked on 12.04.. Since I only upgrade my systems on LTS versions, and then only do clean installs of the new OS version, then install apps via markings file from the old LTS install, I'd hoped this was going to be a painless install like I've experienced with 8.04 and 10.04.. I sure hope Ubuntu isn't regressing from the excellent progress it's made in the last several years.. apart from Unity, that is... What am I missing??
Dave
The second install I added the MATE repo and installed MATE (I detest Unity/Gnome3), and MATE's network manager doesn't show any wireless entries either.
The Dell laptop these two installs were done on, normally runs Ubuntu 10.04/64bit flawlessly with the same hardware that seems to be borked on 12.04.. Since I only upgrade my systems on LTS versions, and then only do clean installs of the new OS version, then install apps via markings file from the old LTS install, I'd hoped this was going to be a painless install like I've experienced with 8.04 and 10.04.. I sure hope Ubuntu isn't regressing from the excellent progress it's made in the last several years.. apart from Unity, that is... What am I missing??
Dave