Want to install Acer Aspire 4720z wireless driver

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C network; lsb_release -a; uname -a; sudo rfkill list; dmesg | grep -i firm

Also, do you dual boot the system? The site you linked shows Broadcom, Intel and Atheros so is not very useful.

rohit@rohit-Aspire-4720Z:~$ sudo lshw -C network; lsb_release -a; uname -a; sudo rfkill list; dmesg | grep -i firm
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:40800000-40803fff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 02
       serial: 00:1b:24:f7:97:01
       size: 100Mbit/s
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.121 duplex=full firmware=5787m-v3.23 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
       resources: irq:46 memory:40300000-4030ffff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Linux rohit-Aspire-4720Z 3.2.0-25-generic-pae #40-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 23 22:11:24 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: yes
 Hard blocked: no
1: acer-bluetooth: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: yes
 Hard blocked: no
[ 0.184578] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
rohit@rohit-Aspire-4720Z:~$

Yes, I do have dual boot. And yes, I gave to link to make here know that those driver software they gave was more into Windows based.

I gave the above commands being offline.

Here the report I got when tried the commands being wired>
rohit@rohit-Aspire-4720Z:~$ sudo lshw -C network; lsb_release -a; uname -a; sudo rfkill list; dmesg | grep -i firm
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:40800000-40803fff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 02
       serial: 00:1b:24:f7:97:01
       size: 100Mbit/s
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.121 duplex=full firmware=5787m-v3.23 ip=192.168.100.11 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
       resources: irq:46 memory:40300000-4030ffff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Linux rohit-Aspire-4720Z 3.2.0-25-generic-pae #40-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 23 22:11:24 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: yes
 Hard blocked: no
1: acer-bluetooth: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: yes
 Hard blocked: no
[ 0.184578] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx

I still do have confusion of how to use this link

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From: actionparsnip <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #201999]: Want to install Acer Aspire 4720z wireless driver
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Date: Monday, 2 July, 2012, 1:26 PM

Your question #201999 on Ubuntu changed:
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    Status: Open => Needs information

actionparsnip requested more information:
Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C network; lsb_release -a; uname -a; sudo rfkill list; dmesg
| grep -i firm

Also, do you dual boot the system? The site you linked shows Broadcom,
Intel and Atheros so is not very useful.

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