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You are using a Broadcom card, and probably the sta driver which does create eth1 rather than wlan0. If you drop to the terminal and type in

lsmod


(LSMOD in lowercase) . You should see wl as...

What type of card or driver are you using?

If you drop to the terminal and type


lspci -n | grep 0280


it will let us know what card you have (by the way that is LSPCI in lowercase not 1)

Ubuntu does not always generate a wlan0, different software such as the STA driver create eth1. Don't worry about it, it is normal.

Did you have a working wired internet connection when you tried? It will need one. Also, if you are running from a live usb did you set up for persistence? If not, it probably forgot when you did...

The first command is simply because you mentioned the proprietary drivers and might have installed the STA driver along the way. Ignore it if it says cannot find bcml------



sudo apt-get remove...

Since we would have to remove whatever the previous tries were (esp ndiswrapper!) it would probably be easier to start from scratch. If the system asks him to install the STA driver make sure he...

If it is a BCM4311 these should take care of it ( do with an ethernet connection)

sudo apt-get remove --purge bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree
sudo modprobe b43

If you go to the thread tools at the top of the page, there is a selection for mark as solved.

@hadaka

From his original statement " Thanks a lot for your help DuckHook. I use HP g6-1201TX and faced problems similar to Tacuabe, however my wifi started working immediately after...

@Hakaka,

The STA driver often makes an eth1 with the wired called eth0, the b43 driver makes a Wlanx.

I guess you can ignore my posting in your other thread! Congratulations on getting it done!

Does it return if you do a

sudo modprobe b43

?

This explains how to use code tags

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1189729

Since you said you have tried several things we should make sure that the blacklisted drivers are correct. Can you copy/paste the output of


cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf back here or just...

Actually there is.

From:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo




You should never use normal sudo to start graphical applications as Root. You should use gksudo (kdesudo on Kubuntu)...

It is really hard when both are down! Anyway, I think we should try to get the ethernet first. This may work or not, but just temporarily anyway ( until the next reboot).

Try,

sudo modprobe...

Just got on
Glad you got it going! with a tip of the hat to Wild Man!

Steve, see this thread

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2110823


Just noticed that you have the incorrect STA driver installed. You probably should do it like this

sudo apt-get...

Glad you got it, enjoy!

Let's see if we can make it better---this should cause it to load the correct module at boot time (which doesn't seem to be happening)


sudo su
echo b43 >> /etc/modules
exit

Hook up an ethernet cable and this usually gets the job done for the bcm4311 (in 12.10)-

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree
sudo modprobe -r b43 && sudo modprobe...

Another good one to see would be


rfkill list all

I agree about the new interface, that is why I switched to the Mate desktop, it is more familiar.


http://mate-desktop.org/install/

Just checked in and noticed your post----at least you got something working, sorry we didn't have more luck with the other one.

I'm sure glad it worked!



and please go to the thread tools above and mark as solved, in case it helps someone else.