can't turn on my wirless card

Can you give the output of:

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

Thanks

just press the "fn" key + F11. this is the way to turn on and off wifi in most of the laptops( in HP, COMPAQ ). just lookout for wifi marking on one of the function keys F1 to F12 and use in in combination with the "fn" key located just by the side of left alt key.

the "fn" key doesn't work on ubuntu this computer used to have win 7. and to andrew 11.04 narly soft block yes and im not sure what to type past that theres ALOT like takes 5 mins to scroll all the way back up after most of that but it does say at the bottem "keycode not found and devise not enabled" and what not

im new to ubuntu so please be more spicific and break it down for me all i can gather so far is when i type one of those commands to check the card its there exactly as its described by broadcom but i have no way to turn it on everything in terminal says devise not enabled and my wireless indicator on my computer wont come on when i use the "fn+f3" like when i use win 7 and i simply can turn it on. it says its compatable i know it works the terminal says everything like its ready to use but i cant just flip a swich or use the "fn" button i did all the analyzing i could with ubuntu's help online and the only thing is how to turn on the card

open the "Additional Drivers" menu in installed programs( if using unity
interface) or can be found in system tools if on classic interface. make
sure that you have a wired internet connection connected to your laptop.
search for drivers. it will show any proprietary drivers available for your
laptop. if so, it will download automatically and install. your broadcom
wifi driver should be installd by this way. just try it and leave a reply.

you were right. but before i even tried doing anything i upgraded to 11.10 and it was working perfectly. i must say IT'S AWESOME. i loved it so much i almost forgot to come back and post. :)