broadcom problem

[G.]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:47 AM, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:42 AM, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
>> My mini 10 Dell as a Broadcom 43x driver.  It has been working great.
>> All of a sudden I can not connect to the various routers within reach
>> until I logged in as a different user.  I had been playing with
>> special effects/compiz and the computer crashed twice and then this
>> problem occurred.
>>
>> I can not do sudo as" 'guest' is not in the sudoers file."
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> gary
>>
>
> I changed permissions and here is an output
>
> guest at garymini:~$ sudo lshw -C network
> [sudo] password for guest:
>  *-network
>       description: Wireless interface
>       product: BCM4312 802.11b/g
>       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
>       physical id: 0
>       bus info: pci at 0000:03:00.0
>       logical name: eth1
>       version: 01
>       serial: 00:25:56:21:3c:83
>       width: 64 bits
>       clock: 33MHz
>       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet
> physical wireless
>       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0
> driverversion=5.60.48.36 ip=192.168.10.102 latency=0 multicast=yes
> wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
>       resources: irq:17 memory:f0100000-f0103fff
>  *-network
>       description: Ethernet interface
>       product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
>       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
>       physical id: 0
>       bus info: pci at 0000:04:00.0
>       logical name: eth0
>       version: 02
>       serial: 00:24:e8:aa:20:88
>       size: 10MB/s
>       capacity: 100MB/s
>       width: 64 bits
>       clock: 33MHz
>       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list
> rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd
> autonegotiation
>       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169
> driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half latency=0 link=no multicast=yes
> port=MII speed=10MB/s
>       resources: irq:27 ioport:2000(size=256)
> memory:f0510000-f0510fff(prefetchable)
> memory:f0500000-f050ffff(prefetchable)
> memory:f0520000-f053ffff(prefetchable)
>  *-network DISABLED
>       description: Ethernet interface
>       physical id: 2
>       logical name: vboxnet0
>       serial: 0a:00:27:00:00:00
>       capabilities: ethernet physical
>       configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes
>
> Is network supposed to be Disabled?
>
> gary
>

Also under Hardware it shows the broadcom wireless as installed and in
use on both the 'guest' and my regular user.  Even on regular user I
get listings of wireles devices, it will just not connect to any of
them, for the past 12 hours.