broadcom 4311

[The Gamer's Federation Tech Support]

I had this same problem and was able to solve it with the windows wireless 
utility, compat-wireless driver, and activating the driver in the 
proprietary drivers area of Hardware Drivers found in 
system/administration

Hope this helps.

Jonathan

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009, Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:

> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 6:56 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 03/23/2009 04:09 PM, Gary Kirkpatrick wrote:
> > I am having trouble getting my Broadcom 4312 to connect.  I downloaded the
> > driver and the fwcutter and ran both.  I can ping the 4312 and the 4312 is
> > listed as a device.  Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > Gary
> >
> >
> 
> If this is a new install (as you mentioned), you might have better luck
> installing wicd instead of trying to get it to work with Network
> Manager. If you had more time then I suggest troubleshooting the issue
> (particularly since you can ping the device), but since you are looking
> to get something up and running quickly I suggest wicd.
> 
> http://wicd.sourceforge.net/
>  http://wicd.sourceforge.net/download.php
>  [Installing Wicd in Ubuntu]
> 
> I'm assuming that you have installed intrepid, if so change from 'hardy' to:
> 
> deb http://apt.wicd.net intrepid extras
> 
> Don't forget to add the signing key:
> 
> $ wget -q http://apt.wicd.net/wicd.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
> 
> If wicd doesn't work for you (it should), you can always easily revert
> back to Network Mangager.
> 
> Not sure it I installed intrepid.  I used a cd I ordered a while back.  The cd I made from a download the first time I installed Ubuntu (on a Dell) I had problems
> with the cd and the install so I ordered a cd for the next time, which was just a few days ago after I bought the HP.  How do I tell if I installed Intrepid?
> 
>  
> Gary
> 
>