wireless internet not working on my HP dv8000 laptop

the HP dv8000 laptop might have a
Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN
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try this...

in
- Ubuntu
go to..
System > Administration > Hardware Drivers

in
- Xubuntu
go to..
System > Hardware Drivers

you must be login as a Admin user or ROOT...

look to see if your wireless is there....if it is you have to enable it...
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i have a Dell Laptop with Ubuntu 8.10
  also i had to do this to make the wireless work (it has a Broadcom chipset)

Hi,

I recently solved the same problem you have on my new Compaq Presario HP, which is a similar machine to the one you have. I paste down here the steps I followed. Maybe this is going to work on your machine too.

First under System/Administration/HarwareDrivers disable both the Atheros HAL and the Atheros wireless thing and then reboot.

Then from a terminal type (press enter after each line)

sudo apt-get install build-essential

sudo apt-get install subversion

cd ~

mkdir madwifi

cd madwifi

svn co https://svn.madwifi.org/madwifi/branches/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6

cd madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6

make

sudo make install

sudo gedit /etc/modules

Now add the Atheros kernel module to the list of modules to be automatically loaded at boot by adding "ath_pci" (without the quotes) to the end of the /etc/modules file. (Gedit editor automatically opens)

Now you can reboot and it should work

Thanks DLHDavidLH, that solved my question.

Thanks a lot for the help guys. I ended up doing a lot of weird things like installing indiswrapper and other things... but sadly and embarrassingly I never actually checked for updates. I went to update manager, but never pressed check so I thought there were no updates. Doing the update found my missing driver and fixed everything.