Colony 4: wifi problems on HP laptop

[Jimmie Houchin]

I have just installed Ubuntu Colony 4 on my HP zv6131us laptop.
Before this installed I had an uptodate Breezy install.

I wanted to give the new CD and installer a try and see if any of the
issues were resolved.

Unfortunately no.

At  http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=273498
I post of my previous success in getting Ubuntu running on this machine.

With the Colony 4 CD I still had to do it all over again.

Unfortunately, the wifi isn't working. Ugh!

I compiled the same ndiswrappers (and also the latest 1.3rc1).
I compiled the exact same driver.

Everything seems to be installed fine.

ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5  driver present, hardware present

iwconnfig
wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"milagronet"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.442 GHz  Access Point: 00:13:10:E3:F2:FB
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:25 dBm
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-66 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


dhclient wlan0
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.2
Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:90:4b:f5:96:b3
Sending on   LPF/wlan0/00:90:4b:f5:96:b3
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 21
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

/etc/network/interfaces  contains:

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

I do the same thing I've done successfully for the last month, but
unsuccessfully.

In a term window.
sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid ******
sudo dhclient wlan0


I went from a working setup to a non-working setup in a matter of an
hour or so.

I hope I don't have to reinstall Colony2 and update, just to get my wifi
working again.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Jimmie