New 8.04 user has no wireless

[MikeonTV]

I have an Acer Aspire duel booting with vista and a newly installed version of 8.04 on a brand new partition. As soon as I started up I had no wireless connection

my driver info can be found here http://www.pastebin.ca/996612

real newb here

[MikeRussell]

Tried this? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=728840

[MikeonTV]

it looks like we're getting close but I get this problem when trying to install the firmwar
"While this driver itself is free software, it relies on proprietary firmware which cannot be legally shipped with the operating system."

[MikeRussell]

Yeah...because it's Broadcomm (and they're not exactly known for being linux friendly) the firmware for these cards cannot be shipped w/ Ubuntu. I'm not completley sure (it's been a while) but I believe the firmware was downloaded for me when I installed the b43 restricted mobules. If that's not the case, you can always do it manually as described here: http://linuxwireless.sipsolutions.net/en/users/Drivers/b43