[ubuntu-in] BSNL Broadband conncetion in ubuntu 9.10

[suranjan jii]

Dear brother Sambit Bikash Pal,
Namaskar.

Narendra bhai shared his knowledge about Offline package installation.
But i didn't try it. B/c i got one cyber cafe where computers were
conncected with each other through networking and it was not wifi but
manually they had connected their computers. They gave me wire to put
in our lan port. When i connceted then without delay it was online. It
showed auto etho connection active.

So i downloaded all packages and updated computer. And everything is
all right now.

According to your suggestion i checked hardware drivers and it showed
"Broadcom B43 wireless driver". I clicked on "activate" . then driver
was downloaded and installed. And now it is showing activated.

I will go to that other cybercafe where everything is wifi and see how it works.

many many thanks to all brothers who shared their knowledge and
donated their valuable time to fix my problem.

To solve problem of one, many come forward like childhood friend or
relative in this forum. It happens only in Ubuntu.

thank you all
Namaskar
with regards
suranjan

On 8/12/10, Sambit Bikas Pal <sambitbikaspal at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 15:05, suranjan jii <suranjan.suranjan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> Namaskar brother,
>> I checked it and  can't see the name of the wifi network in the list
>>  of networks. Pls tell me which driver i have to install. I am using
>> Dell laptop latitude D400.
>>
>
> In order to install the driver for wifi, first get connected to the
> net using your Airtel connection (don't worry, the driver is quite
> small in size, it will not take much time). Then go to System -->
> Administration --> Hardware drivers
> You will get a list of proprietary drivers that are available for your
> system. I guess Dell Latitude D400 uses Broadcom wifi card. Select the
> Broadcom STA driver and click activate. It should download and install
> the driver on your system. Restart your computer. Wifi should work.
> Please try this out.
>
> Well you are absolutely right that Ubuntu should automatically do
> these things, so that the user doesn't need to worry about these
> little issues. However the problem in this case is not with Ubuntu.
> Broadcom is not kind enough to provide GNU GPLed (sorry, but in case
> you don't know what it is -- it is a software license that allows free
> distribution/development of the software, read more about this here if
> you want - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html) drivers.
> The current drivers that are available for Broadcom are proprietary,
> which restricts their free distribution as well as development.
> For example computers having wifi card from Intel, generally work out
> of the box, since Intel releases open source drivers for most of their
> hardwares. These open source drivers can be included in the default
> installation, since there is no issue with the distribution of such
> drivers.
>
> Anyway please mail us, if you come across any issue while installing
> the drivers.
>
> Thanks.
>
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