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Wireless Help

Asked by Travis

Please Help I am desperate! I have had no internet for like 12 days...I have a DELL inspiron 1505. I had Ubuntu 10.10 and the wifi worked just fine after I installed the drivers. Then I upgraded to 11.04 and now my wifi won't work for anything...I have tried so many things. It says that a Proprietary Driver is in use. I need this to be fixed by Monday. Please help me!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C network; rfkill list; uname -a; lsb_release -a

Thanks

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Travis (t-neu07) said : 		#2

The output

 *-network UNCLAIMED

       description: Network controller

       product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN

       vendor: Broadcom Corporation

       physical id: 0

       bus info: pci@0000:0b:00.0

       version: 01

       width: 32 bits

       clock: 33MHz

       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list

       configuration: latency=0

       resources: memory:efcfc000-efcfffff

  *-network UNCLAIMED

       description: Ethernet controller

       product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX

       vendor: Broadcom Corporation

       physical id: 0

       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0

       version: 02

       width: 32 bits

       clock: 33MHz

       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list

       configuration: latency=64

       resources: memory:ef9fe000-ef9fffff

0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN

 Soft blocked: no

 Hard blocked: no

Linux Travis2171 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:50 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

No LSB modules are available.

Distributor ID: Ubuntu

Description: Ubuntu 11.04

Release: 11.04

Codename: natty

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

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

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Travis (t-neu07) said : 		#4

I need internet access to do this correct? My ethernet cable wont even connect ..Any ideas??

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

You can use the liveCD to do it too.

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Travis (t-neu07) said : 		#6

Okay thank you!

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Travis (t-neu07) said : 		#7

Sorry to bother but i dont know how to use the live CD to do it... Do i just put it in then open it up??? I do that and there are many folders that are available to click on?

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