wireless is not working

also to add is there a way to get my intergrated wireless broadcom to work ? it seem as if it will never get powerd on???

.exe files are usually windows executables. They can't run natively under linux. Use wine (in universe repositories) or cedega (commercial, but sometimes easier to configure).

For your card, have you tried:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WiFiHowTo
?

but i downloaded speciaficly the file which was supposed to be just for linux (the exe)

I've just downloaded the linux version it's really a linux executable (no extension) packed with tar and gzip.

First double click the archive, archive manager should appear. Extract it to let's say desktop. You should be able to run it by again simply double-clicking on the "stepmania" file inside the extracted folder.

If this fails something doesn't work :) It worked for me but there seems to be a lot of threads on forums on how to get it running. So i wouldn't be surprised with some problems. Try running it in terminal to see why it's failing.

Note also that this is not a recommended as a way to install software on your ubuntu. You should use Add/Remove or Synaptic. There doesn't seem to be a package for stepmania however.

I've downloaded from here:
http://www.stepmania.com/wiki/Downloads
linux binary.

yea i finaly got it work i had to download it on linux instead of wuseing a thumb drive. but i cant seem to get ndiswrapper working yet .but im working on it

Thanks Wrwrwr, that solved my question.

wrwrwr a bit more help if you dont mindi used ndiswrapper to install the driver and nothing is working still
it seems to be under etho1 not wlano0

everytime i try to enable it is goes back and disables it it self

I'm not really an expert when it comes to wireless, but unless someone more knowledgeable helps will try :)

First, could you please show me the output of the lspci and iwconfig, and maybe also write shortly what steps you have taken?

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
06:06.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
06:09.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller
06:09.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
06:09.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller
06:09.4 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Texas Instruments PCI6411/6421/6611/6621/7411/7421/7611/7621 Secure Digital Controller
lspci

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"" Nickname:"Broadcom 4318"
          Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid
          RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=-256 dBm Noise level=-256 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
iwconfig

i just set up least try to set up ndswrapper installed all the drivers need i guess. but still read that its there but wheni enable it it just disables it self

Yes, seems your card is really not supported. First i would still check the System-->Administration-->Restricted Drivers Manager, probably no driver there but it won't hurt.

I understand that you more or less have followed all the steps on: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper, that:

Then yes it should probably be under wlan0.

Some things to check:
Does "modprobe -l ndiswrapper" return a line with ndiswrapper near the end?
Does "ndiswrapper -l" shows you some "a driver present, hardware present" message?
I suppose those two are ok.

Check your /etc/ifftab file, there should be a line there for wlan0, like this:
wlan0 mac 01:02:03:04:05:06 arp 1
and the address should be your cards unique hardware address.

Are you tring method 3.6.1 or 3.6.2 to configure the card?

Typo, it should be /etc/iftab.

i cant find adiministation ???

modprobe -l ndiswrapper

/lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/kernel/ubuntu/misc/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko

bcmwl5 : driver installed
        device (14E4:4318) present (alternate driver: bcm43xx)
bcmwl5a : driver installed
        device (14E4:4318) present (alternate driver: bcm43xx)
bcmwlhom.exe : invalid driver!
bcmwlu00.exe : invalid driver!
setup.exe : invalid driver!
sp31463.exe : invalid driver!

the two installed are the ones i suposedly needed there in my computer already

my wireless registers as my eth1

ndisgtk is unable to see if hard ware is presint.

i have a mac adress for eht0 and eth1 but no wireless for the iftab file

You can change eth1 to wlan0 in /etc/iftab ("sudo gedit /etc/iftab" in terminal). But i'm almost sure it won't work anyway, so before that try those instructions from the last answer (all those procedures assume you didn't change much in files on your system, so you'll have to undo any you've already did).

Some clarifications:
Compiling ndiswrapper,
point 1: add ndiskgtk (should be removed automatically, so just to be sure)
point 2: you want the stable 1.48 version
point 3: you can just as well extract the archive by clicking on it
point 4: assuming you've extracted to your desktop it would be: "cd ~/Desktop/ndiswrapper-1.48"

Configuring ndiswrapper:
point 1: make a directory "drivers" on your desktop and put there all windows files (bcmwl5a.inf & bcmwl5.sys).
point 2: this time it will be "cd ~/Desktop/drivers"

Install and configure wicd:
point 1: download and put wicd_1.3.1-all.deb on your desktop
point 2: "cd ~/Desktop" and "sudo dpkg -i wicd_1.3.1-all.deb"

This instructions are only a couple of days old, so there's a good chance it should work.

well it works lest it seems to work bit slow but im fine with that thanks

my gaim seems not to be working now...

Thanks Wrwrwr, that solved my question.