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Cannot get wireless to work since going on to Ubuntu

Asked by Nicholas Webster

I have a HP DV6000 series pavilion which previously had Windows vista home premium installed on it - I have removed that completely and now installed Ubuntu - the wireless worked before but since Ubuntu not anymore. I have checked the wireless switch and it stays orange no matter which way I click it. I have tried putting in code lines into my terminal and it asks for my sudo password which I enter but seems to throw it out and still wont work - any ideas?
Many Thanks

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Roy S (clean-carrier-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

Tried connecting the ethernet cable, so Ubuntu gets the chance to update the wifi drivers?

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Nicholas Webster (dorchvegas4) said : 		#2

I will try that cheers, come to think of it I downloaded it by cd - and it was not connected - would I need to put code in order to get the updates - or will ubuntu do it automatically?

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Roy S (clean-carrier-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#3

If you click the power icon in your top right you'll get some update options. Ubuntu will then update your system. If it still doesn't work after a reboot there are ways to install drivers manually.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C network; lsb_release -a; uname -a; sudo rfkill list; dmesg | grep -i firm

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Nicholas Webster (dorchvegas4) said : 		#5

hi - yes here is the output -
webster1@webster1-HP-Pavilion-dv6000-RY598EA-ABU:~$ sudo lshw -C network; lsb_release -a; uname -a; sudo rfkill list; dmesg | grep -i firm
[sudo] password for webster1:
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:b8000000-b8003fff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Linux webster1-HP-Pavilion-dv6000-RY598EA-ABU 3.2.0-23-generic-pae #36-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 10 22:19:09 UTC 2012 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
[ 0.171124] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
webster1@webster1-HP-Pavilion-dv6000-RY598EA-ABU:~$

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx

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Nicholas Webster (dorchvegas4) said : 		#7

Right I have followed all the steps on that link and it is still not connecting - I'm a bit phased by that

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Nicholas Webster (dorchvegas4) said : 		#8

I did do the STA upload - due to my installation including the other 3rd party devices on install

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#9

If you get a wired connection it will make things a tonne easier, Updates wil help then you can use the additional drivers app and install the driver easily

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Nicholas Webster (dorchvegas4) said : 		#10

Thanks!!! I just removed STA Broadcom driver and tried another redowload of the normal b43 kernal driver - and it worked!!! happy Days - thanks for all you help actionparsnip & Roy - Now to start getting back to basic fun computing!! :D

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Nicholas Webster (dorchvegas4) said : 		#11

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.