Wireless Problem on Ubuntu 9.10

Fresh install with Ubuntu 9.10 on Acer Aspire 5100- Detects my wireless adapter, but doesn't show networks to connect to and if I try to setup manually, It does not connect. Is it a problem with driver? Wireless works fine on Windows Xp -Windows 7. As to the model number/name of the adapter, its the stock one, and all win 7 tells me is its a "Broadcom 802.11g Network Adapter"

 

frakking broadcom...should be ok...broadcom user needs to step in here....

 

Put up the contents of the command lspci, and we can help some more.

 

yeah
1. dmesg | grep -i wifi (instead wifi can be used also 'broadcom' or 'wireless')
2. dmesg | grep -i error (or warning)
3. lspci
4. ps -ef | grep -i networkmanager
5. ps -ef | grep -i nm-applet

 

Sorry for not replying quicker - figured it out on my own. Went found out it was Broadcom 4311 and just installed the drivers manually. thanks for the replies though

 

yep....that's what a user could have told you real quick like...there's some of them around here I think Wasn't trying to be lazy in my earlier post, just...you know... I really couldn't remember....

 

Haha no problem it didnt take me long, b/c I heard for the 43xx series didnt work right out of the box. so from there it was easy.

 

In the daze of yore, a program called fwcutter was used to install necessary files for Broadcom I think....but I'm not up to speed anymore as I've avoided anything but Intel Wireless for that last 3.5 years.

 

Yes I read about fwcutter, but that did not apply to my model

 

Have you installed Broadcom STA from the restricted drivers?

 

Yes, I believe thats what I did

 

Ok. I had an Acera long time ago and the wlan was a PITA to get working. I remember having to download acer_acpi to get the card activated as the laptop switch wasn't really doing anything. Try to look for it in synaptic. It wouldn't hurt to try it and see if it can wake your wlan card up.