Please help Ubuntu 11.04

[david peltier]

Hi Aron,

Could you please copy/paste your terminal logs when trying to install.

Regards,

David

On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Aron Schwartz <doit613 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey, thanks for replying - I actually tried using notepad first (.txt) but
> that wouldnt even open in Ubuntu. I had Word documents on my usb that I was
> able to open in Ubuntu though - when I then tried putting the Ubuntu
> terminal command into a Word document it turned into gibberish =/
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 9 August 2011 15:20, Aron Schwartz <doit613 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi, I recently installed Ubuntu 11.04 and am having a very frustrating
>> time
>> > trying to connect to my wifi. My wireless card is Broadcom4322 - I went
>> into
>> > Windows and downloaded the driver (.deb) onto a usb  - when I try to
>> extract
>> > it in Linux it doesnt work I get " " is not a debian format archive. So
>> I
>> > think I have the driver for broadcom4322 but cant extract it. I went
>> back to
>> > Windows and searched for this error and found a paragraph long Command
>> to
>> > put into the terminal window that might debug the error - unfortunately
>> when
>> > I tried opening this command via Word document in Ubuntu all I get is
>> code
>> > gibberish =/. Trying to type it out in terminal only led to technical
>> > errors. So if anyone can help with:
>> > 1. an alternate way of activating Broadcom4322 Wifi
>> > 2. how to extract .deb or .tar.gz files without errors
>> > 3. how to open text commands in Ubuntu without only seeing code
>> > any help would be appreciated, thanks - Eric
>>
>> Google led me to this which might be helpful:
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx
>>
>> The reason the word file came out as gibberish is that Word files are
>> not text files, but are in fact gibberish (if interpreted as text
>> files).  If you want to write a text file in windows you must use a
>> simple text editor not Word.  Notepad used to be the way to do this.
>>
>> Colin
>>
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