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My wireless on my computer is not working how do I fix this?

Asked by Jake Droege

I have a HP Pavilion dv6500 with a Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) dual CPU T2310 @ 1.46GHz 1.47GHz and RAM: 2.00GB and System type: 32-bit Operating System.

Right now I have window 7 on my main hard Drive. I use Linux live USB Creator to use USB key to run Ubuntu 10.10.

My question is my wireless on my computer is not working when I am in Ubuntu how do I fix this? I went on my device manager on window 7 to find my Network adapter but there 3 things show up:

Broadcom 802.11g Network Adapter
Microsoft virtual WiFi Miniport Adapter
Realtek RTL8101E Family PCI-E Fast Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.20)

I try to do this

Step-by-step to Enable Wireless Network Connection for Ubuntu 10.10:
1.Connect an Ethernet cable to your laptop or system to your router, don't use wireless.
2.Install Ubuntu wubi or install CD.
3.After the installation, go to the System-Administration Pull-down Menu and find Hardware Drivers.
4.Activate wireless driver if you see that in the "Additional Drivers" list.
It looks for proprietary drivers that Ubuntu is not legally allowed to include so you have to do this manually. It should find something like STA Wireless Driver, just select it. If there are more than one, pick the recommended one and enable it. While you are there, if there is a driver for your video card, enable that too while you are at it (then after step 5, go into System-Preference-Appearance and select extra under visual)
5.Close the dialog after successful installation. Then reboot, restart your computer from the system menu (in the upper, right corner).
6.Reboot and your wireless network connection should now be working.

But I got a dialog box saying that the installation did not work.

I am new to Ubuntu and do not know too much about computers. I know how to format windows but that’s it. Hope to learn more.

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Derrick Matthews (drrckmtthws) said : 		#1

I'm new to ubuntu as well and had this same issue after installing ubuntu 10.10, I didn't have this problem while in dual boot, but after I did a clean install and made Ubuntu my only OS my wireless couldn't connect to my home network, and what was the solution for me is not changing any of the settings in Ubuntu it's self but changing the settings in the wireless router, apparently some firewall settings and security settings will through off your wireless connection in ubuntu, I saw in a forum the the router needs to be in wpa settings only, but I did something different I set my router only as wireless access point, and it fix my problem hopefully it can fix yours.

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neil.james130@ntlworld.com (neil-james130) said : 		#2

I HAVE CHANGED ALL THE SETTING S ON THE NET WORK SYSTEM TO GET WIRLESS CO NNECTION. IAM UNABLE TOPUT THEM BACK TO ORIGINAL SETTINGS AS I CANT REMEMBER WHAT THEY WERE

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neil.james130@ntlworld.com (neil-james130) said : 		#3

i dont have a main computor only wireless netbook

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Jake Droege (jakedroege) said : 		#4

Thank you everyone for the help.

Derrick you help me out by saying to look in the forums. If found this website and I did what it said to do and it work!

http://www.ubuntumini.com/2010/10/broadcom-wireless-driver-fix-in.html

This is what this website said,

The Broadcom wireless card that came with the Dell Mini 9/10 or Vostro A90 does work in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meekrat. You just have to manually install it via the command line.

First you have to physically connect the Mini/Vostro to a wired internet connection. This step is a must.

Then pull up a command line terminal prompt.
You can find the terminal under Applications>Accessories>Terminal

In the Terminal type:

sudo apt-get update
- to update your repositories and tell you system where to get the driver from.

sudo apt-get --reinstall install bcmwl-kernel-source
- to install the driver.

Reboot the machine. Check to see if the driver installed correctly. You can find Additional Drivers in System>Administration>Additional Drivers.

All I had to do was open the Terminal and type sudo apt-get update and hit enter and reboot the my computer. After that my wireless work. But on the website that show me how to do this I look at the comments and some people said what Derrick said that they had to changing the settings in the wireless router and then it work.