this is all the output that i was given. i am trying to connect to "572" which is accessible by both my phone, ps3, and windows laptop. this laptop is about a foot away from the router.
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this is all the output that i was given. i am trying to connect to "572" which is accessible by both my phone, ps3, and windows laptop. this laptop is about a foot away from the router.
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sudo lshw -C network
*-network:0
description: Network controller
product: BCM4306 802.11a/b/g
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 4
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Yes, I removed your drivers and switched them for westie's after I posted the output you asked for. After trying westie's firmware (to no avail), I dug into 11.10's "firmware-b43-installer" and...
Unfortunately, that made no difference. here is the dmesg output with the firmware that westie457 posted:
[ 0.000000] APIC: switched to apic NOOP
[ 0.004953] SMP alternatives:...
To clean up the output of dmesg, i rebooted my computer and tried to connect to my home network once. i then immediately ran the command dmesg | egrep 'b43|firm|radio|switch|wlan0' and got this:
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sudo lshw -C network
*-network:0
description: Network controller
product: BCM4306 802.11a/b/g
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 4
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wildmanne39: I can verify that this does not work on my laptop (Gateway 400VTX). I am running xubuntu 11.10 and have the same network card (bcm4306/3) as Dragonbite. After performing the steps...
A little progress:
I installed the version of "firmware-b43-installer" that is available for Ubuntu 11.04. You can get it from here:...
I have the same problem on my Gateway 400VTX laptop. Here is the output of lspci for the card:
02:04.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4324] (rev 03)
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