ubuntu 11.04 broadcom wireless not recognized

**nadavten** · May 5th, 2011

ive installed ubuntu 11.04 and my broadcom wireless is not recognized. solution ?

**william.smith3** · May 5th, 2011

Have you tried to disable then enable wireless as well as a reboot? Are you still having the issue with the wireless network not being recognized?

**josephmills** · May 5th, 2011

lets see what kind of broadcom wireless model you have please open your terminal and type in

Code:

lspci -vnn | grep 14e4

then paste here thanks

**nadavten** · May 6th, 2011

Ethernet controller: ....
Network controller: Broadcom BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN rev01

**nadavten** · May 6th, 2011

Ethernet controller: ....
Network controller: Broadcom BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN rev01

**bkratz** · May 6th, 2011

Originally Posted by nadavten

Ethernet controller: ....
Network controller: Broadcom BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN rev01

This link should give you what you need.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1741865

**nadavten** · May 6th, 2011

thank u all. managed to solve the problem

**bkratz** · May 6th, 2011

Glad you got it going!

**fatpunk2** · May 27th, 2011

thanks bkratz : same problem, same solution (aka your link to the other post), eveything works on my antique Pavilion dv5000

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