Unfortunately drivers do still break. The best solution I've found for a broken wireless driver is to file a bug report, buy a $5 wireless dongle, and use it until the issue is resolved. I had this situation with my EeePC 901 from about Ubuntu 9.04 - 10.10.<div>
<br></div><div>For someone that wants to learn the deep Linux magic, I guess messing around with downloaded drivers is a good thing. For someone that just wants a usable system, messing with non-blessed packages in Ubuntu is likely to bring you pain upon upgrades.<div>
<br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Bob Kline <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I have a machine with the bcm 43xx chipset,<div>and wireless worked under Kubuntu 6.04 or thereabouts.</div><div>Should have left well enough alone. I "ungraded,"</div><div>and it's never worked since. But I've moved on....</div>
<div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div> -- Bob</div></font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Edwardo Fuentes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:edwardo.fuentes@gmail.com" target="_blank">edwardo.fuentes@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I appreciate being welcomed for my first time to this users group. I got good helpful hints on enabling my broadcom wireless card on ubuntu 10.10.<div>
I found it in the removed the bcm 43xx from the blacklist, installed the driver & firmware. unfortunately wireless is still not working. gotta check the card & plugs next. hope to see ya next week.</div>
<div><br clear="all"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Thanks; </span><br style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Edwardo</span><br style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><a href="tel:616.834.3023" value="+16168343023" target="_blank">616.834.3023</a></span><br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div>On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Bob Kline <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com" target="_blank">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><div>
<a href="http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/" target="_blank">http://chromeos.hexxeh.net/</a><div><br></div><div>The turnout at last night's GRLUG </div><div>meet was quite good. At least 14</div>
<div>people. The Starbucks location has</div><div>worked out well. So far there's never</div><div>been any shortage of space for the</div><div>GRLUG meets. </div><div><br></div><div>One fellow showed off his Asus </div>
<div>machine running Chrome OS. What</div><div>seemed to be of interest is that it is</div><div>actually installed on the machine, </div><div>since it wasn't clear that Chrome OS</div><div>supported any hardware but Google's</div>
<div>own CR-48 machine, and the Samsung</div><div>and Acer machines. But the Asus </div><div>machine runs fine, comes up very</div><div>quickly, and shuts down almost </div><div>instantly. Not clear what the battery</div>
<div>life situation is.</div><div><br></div><div>The URL above will take you to a </div><div>website where you can make a USB</div><div>setup, and run Chrome OS on your</div><div>own iron. </div><div><br></div><div> -- Bob</div>
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