Lovely, my WIFI is not working

[greg387]

Hey Guys,
Just made the switch to Ubuntu from Windows 7. Not such a techie dude, so bear with me.

My wifi does not work (but my wired connection does). After doing some troubleshooting, I think it has to do with my laptop not having a recognized card. After typing
sudo pccardctl ident

I do not get any output.

According to the Ubuntu, troubleshooting wifi guide, Im supposed to open a configuration file and add this information to it: ( gksudo gedit /etc/pcmcia/config.opts )

Socket 0:
product info: "Atheros Communications, Inc.", "AR5001-0000-0000", "Wireless LAN Reference Card", "00"
manfid: 0x0271, 0x0012
function: 6 (network)

Where the above info is my network card. However, I dont know how to find this info.

FYI when I type lshw -C network, I get:

*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: MCP67 Ethernet
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: a
bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.0
logical name: eth0
version: a2
serial: 00:1d:72:62:9b:d1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=forcedeth driverversion=0.64 ip=192.168.2.12 latency=0 maxlatency=20 mingnt=1 multicast=yes
resources: irq:27 memory:fc488000-fc488fff ioport:30f8(size=8) memory:fc489c00-fc489cff memory:fc489800-fc48980f
*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
version: 03
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0
resources: irq:21 memory:fc000000-fc003fff memory:fc500000-fc5fffff(prefetchable)


Can someone help me out here? I am so lost, and have tried hours upon hours of troubleshooting!


Thanks guys!

Greg

[bruno9779]

Your wifi card BCMXXX was one of the hardest wifi cards to get working in Ubuntu.

Nowadays it is fairly better, but still not straightforward.

have a look here: http://www.bluebottle.net.au/blog/20...ntu-904-jaunty

It is a mini-howto to get that card running in 9.04, ought to work in koala too.

If it doesn't post back, I managed to get one of those working before, with tinkering I am sure I could again

[greg387]

Tried to install fwcutter and it said: "Error: Wrong architecture 'amd64'"

Even though I am running on an AMD turion X2. Thoughts?

[Iowan]

Tried to install fwcutter and it said: "Error: Wrong architecture 'amd64'"
Even though I am running on an AMD turion X2. Thoughts?

Drivers are still outta my league, but I'm curious if you have the 64-bit Ubuntu (AMD) installed?

[trunkmonkeytoo]

I have a similar problem, I have Ubuntu installed inside Windows 7, and cannot get wifi to work, even after installing and uninstalling, and a guide from https://help.ubuntu.com/7.04/interne...-internet.html

Maybe this guide will help you, but it unfortunately didn't work for me.

[greg387]

I have 32 bit.

Unfortunately, the guide didnt work.

Oh well, guess its back to Windows...