Lubuntu wireless issues

[harrison11]

Hi All,

I'm new to Lubuntu (life long windows guy that has finally seen the light). I've installed Lubuntu 12.10 to an old laptop and am having trouble connecting wirelessly to the internet. I have a hardwire connection that works and have done the following after perusing the forums:

lspci returned: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 80.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)

The forums then led me to do the following:

sudo apt-get update-get
sudo apt-get --reinstall install bcmwl-kernel-source

...this returned:

wl:
Running module version sanity check.
-Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/3.5.0-17-generic/updates/dkms/

depmod....

DKMS: install completed.
ERROR: Module b43 does not exist in /proc/modules
ERROR: Module b43legacy does not exist in /proc/modules
ERROR: Module ssb is in use by ssb_hcd,b44
ERROR: Module bcm43xx does not exist in /proc/modules
ERROR: Module brcm80211 does not exist in /proc/modules
ERROR: Module brcmfmac does not exist in /proc/modules
ERROR: Module brcmsmac does not exist in /proc/modules
ERROR: Module bcma does not exist in /proc/modules
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.5.0-17-generic


I'm still not able to connect. Any help would be appreciated. Thx.

[wildmanne39]

Hi, please do:

sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source

sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree

sudo modprobe b43

Thanks

[Rex Bouwense]

Here is a solution from earlier this year.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2100494

Aced out by Wild Man. That's because I only use two fingers. Never did learn how to type.

[harrison11]

Thanks a lot. The first 2 codes seems to have worked. The last code returned this:

FATAL: Module b3 not found.

[wildmanne39]

Sorry I missed the 4 in the last command please try again I fixed the code in the command in the last post.
Thanks

[wildmanne39]

The b43 driver is the one we want to use for this device.
Thanks

[harrison11]

Thanks so much. This was successful. Appreciate your help.

[wildmanne39]

Your welcome!
Enjoy