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Wireless Connection not working.

Asked by separates

I just installed Ubuntu on my formerly Windows XP laptop. Everything seems to be working 100% except for the wireless connection/card. I have a Broadcom BCM4306 rev. 03. There's a blue light that is usually on when the card is enabled and it is not on. It might be the driver? When I use the Hardware Testing app it lists my wireless card. Then the internet connection test says not connected.

This is what the lshw command says under wireless interface

"configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=802.11g"

there is no, driver=xxxxxxxx so, I'm thinking that might be the problem.

Please let me know if you need any more information. Thank you.

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t_robert (amoresunaramera) said : 		#1

i ran into the same problem when i first installed ubuntu... i had to find a way of getting a wired connection to download ndiswrapper... (you can do that through synaptics or through terminal: type in "sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper" (without quoutations). when i did that, my wifi card worked flawlessly... good luck!

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Monica (gipsy1789) said : 		#2

Actually, I got the same problem, and I've tried to install ndiswrapper, however, my system shows me that E: could not find ndiswrapper error. So I failed to install it. Do you have any idea about this error? BTW,I saved the ndiswrapper file on desktop.
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