Wireless Question

[Md Ashickur Rahman Noor]

please give the Output of *lspci* and *ifconfig.*
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Md Ashickur Rahman




On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:13 AM, MICHAEL J MARCINIAK <phxmke at me.com> wrote:

> Greetings. Trying to get my wireless card working, and this is as far as
> this newbie can get.
>
> Compaq Presario v5005us
>
> Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] [14e4:4318] (rev 02)
> Wireless "on" button does not work on physical machine (did light up
> on it's own before installing Ubantu in Windoze and wireless worked).
> nm-tool reports "Driver:b43", "State:unavailable"
>
> I did connect to a USB wireless adapter, and it updated several
> "drivers" and such on it's own. But, nm-tool reports a driver, it seems
> I just can't "power" it on on the laptop itself.
>
> running "sudo lshw -C network" reveals the driver, version, but
> firmware=N/A.
> Is this a Compaq firmware missing issue (hence the physical "on" button
> doesn't work)? Can I update this somehow even the firmware most likely
> is Windoze only, or am I just hosed? It even lists the MAC address.
>
> Ubuntu r11.04 (natty)
>
> Thanks in advance for any help
>
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