Hey guys, I recently posted this in the Absolute Beginner forum and haven't got much feedback, so I figured I would try it here as well.
I recently installed Ubuntu (Lucid Lynx) on a desktop that was gathering dust in my house. I absolutely love everything about it so far and I'm learning something new everyday. However, I have spent the past few days following every tutorial I can find in an effort to get my wireless to work, but to no avail. I have a BCM 4303 wireless card (apparently the most aggravating card on the market) and the chipset is 14e4:4301. I am connected to the internet through my laptop currently. I have tried ndiswrapper (no luck) as well as b43-fwcutter (no luck), but perhaps now that I have a whole wonderful community behind me, I might make a little more progress! Let me know whatever info I need to post and I will do it asap.
I have since reinstalled and am now working with a clean slate. I did apt-get update and also enabled the b43legacy driver found under System>Hardware Drivers. However, when I click the Network Manager and try to enable wireless, I find that it says wireless is disabled and Enable Wireless is blacked out when I right click. This is where I've been stuck for quite a while.
I went ahead and moved to trying ndiswrapper.
I cabextracted the WinXP drivers I found here: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...os=228&lang=en
I then moved the files bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys to my desktop. I started ndisgtk and selected the bcmwl5.inf which it installed with no problems. Then I restarted my computer, just for good measure, but the "Enable Wireless" option is still faded when I right click Network Manager and it says "Wireless is Disabled." I'm very new to Ubuntu so any direction from here is greatly appreciated!
Also, I'm using a Dell desktop.
Let me know if you guys need more info and I will post it asap! Thanks so much in advance, guys! I am otherwise loving the Ubuntu experience.
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