can't connect to linksysE2000 router

[greyoracle]

I used to be able to connect to my router and now I can't for some reason; it happened all of a sudden. I'm not sure what relevant information to include except that I can still connect to the router via a dual boot to Windows 7 and I can connect via Ubuntu to at least one other wireless router of someone in my neighborhood. It probably doesn't help that I'm running a proprietary driver (Broadcom STA wireless driver) to make things work, so I'm not sure what anyone will be able to do here, but any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Bucky Ball]

Thread moved to Networking & Wireless

You might have better luck here and you could start with providing the output of these two commands:

sudo lshw -C network
iwconfig

[greyoracle]

sudo lshw -C network

*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: 82577LM Gigabit Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 19
bus info: pci@0000:00:19.0
logical name: eth0
version: 05
serial: 5c:26:0a:1f:46:4f
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=1.5.1-k firmware=0.12-1 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
resources: irq:42 memory:e9600000-e961ffff memory:e9680000-e9680fff ioport:8040(size=32)
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth1
version: 01
serial: 1c:65:9d:9b:c1:1e
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=6.20.155.1 (r326264) ip=192.168.1.107 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abg
resources: irq:17 memory:e6e00000-e6e03fff

iwconfig

Command 'iwconfig' is available in '/sbin/iwconfig'
The command could not be located because '/sbin' is not included in the PATH environment variable.
This is most likely caused by the lack of administrative privileges associated with your user account.
iwconfig: command not found

sudo iwconfig

lo no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:"linksys"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:23:69:B8:6B:8B
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=200 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=23/70 Signal level=-87 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

eth0 no wireless extensions.

[Bucky Ball]

Ouch. That is pretty much unreadable. What happened? Please copy from the terminal and paste. Edit post three to paste the outputs and use [code] tags (you can add manually or 'Go Advanced', mark code and hit the # icon.

[greyoracle]

sorry I'm on a very slow connection and was under some time pressure when I first posted #3. I think it's much more readable now. thanks for your patience.

[greyoracle]

Hi, it's been a week and I haven't heard from you. I was just wondering if there was something else that I needed to do first. thanks.

[greyoracle]

It turns out that if you remove the proprietary Broadcom STA wireless driver everything works (ie I can connect to routers that require a password when before I could only connect to unsecured routers). not that anyone much cares at this point Even I gave up on this thread