wifi driver for what I think is a broadcom wireless card

[theperfecttime22]

can't find a driver for my wireless card. and forget how to figure it out in the terminal. I have 10.04 and a very smart friend who isn't around anymore to help me out.

[jayd512]

Hello and Welcome!
Take a look through this page. Follow through the steps, and post back here with all requested output.
Someone should be able to help get you sorted.

[theperfecttime22]

too big so I compressed and sent. let me know if that works

[jayd512]

It came out garbled. Can you simply copy/paste the content to a post?

[jyorkcar]

The commands you want are lspci and lsusb.

If you have a PCI (internal card), then type the command: sudo lspci
If you have a USB (external card), then type the command: sudo lsusb

and to make sure of your architecture type the command: sudo uname -m

Take note of your ID, chipset, and x86 or x64, then just do a google search to download the driver.

Example outputs:
01:01.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC [168c:001a] (rev 01)
i686

ID: 168c:001a
Chipset: AR2413
Architecture: x86

See here if you need to use ndiswrapper with a Windows based driver: ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=885847

[theperfecttime22]

lspci, ifconfig, and lsmod attached. hope you can see them this time.

-Sean

[jayd512]

Here is your wireless card:

Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:4358]

Provided you have an ethernet connection, open up a terminal, and do:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo modprobe wl

If all goes well, you should then be able to start scanning for available networks.

[theperfecttime22]

Doesn't seem like it works. I got a message that it couldn't find something when I did the bcmwl-kernal-source install command.

[jayd512]

Have you enabled the extra software repositories for Ubuntu?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu