Lost wireless connection when upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10
sam R
samcalc2 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 18 15:14:29 UTC 2010
I did install "linux-backports-modules-generic". But it didn't fix the problem
sudo lshw -C network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci at 0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:16:d3:e0:95:ad
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd
autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3
driverversion=3.99 duplex=full firmware=5787m-v3.23 ip=192.168.1.6
latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
resources: irq:28 memory:d6000000-d600ffff
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci at 0000:03:00.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
resources: memory:d8000000-d8003fff
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> sam R wrote:
>> Lost wireless connection when upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10
>>
>>
>> I was running Ubuntu 9.04 with no problems all, but when I upgraded
>> to 9.10 I lost wireless connection (Ethernet works fine).
>
> What is your wireless card? You can find it out with the command
>
> sudo lshw -C network
>
> in a terminal. Furthermore you could install the linux-backports-modules
> package for your kernel. E.g. if you have the package linux-image-
> generic installed, it is the package "linux-backports-modules-generic".
>
>
> Nils
>
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