broadcom problem

[G.]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 10:52 AM, G. <pegngaryubuntu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Additional output:

guest at garymini:~$ ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:24:e8:aa:20:88
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:27 Base address:0xe000

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:25:56:21:3c:83
          inet addr:192.168.10.102  Bcast:192.168.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::225:56ff:fe21:3c83/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:29710 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:78312
          TX packets:29046 errors:41 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:27684998 (27.6 MB)  TX bytes:5078543 (5.0 MB)
          Interrupt:17

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:2323 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2323 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:250828 (250.8 KB)  TX bytes:250828 (250.8 KB)

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