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Unwittingly activate wrong wireless driver and now cannot activate the correct one

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http://askubuntu.com – I just installed Kubuntu 10.10 on my MacBook 3,1 and found no wireless connection. Using KPackageKit I activated Broadcom b43 because it had already been selected for me. When I subsequently tried to activate Broadcom STA, however, I was returned with an error. After reading Jockey log I removed the wrong driver and reinstalled all drivers so that I can activate the correct one. It hasn't work even though KPackageKit now shows that I have installed: bcmwl-kernel-source bcmwl-modaliases broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source According to the log it appears as if there are conflicts but I don' (HowTos)

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Submitted by missing on 10/18/2012

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hello,

i followed this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1288865 and successfully installed 'dkms' and 'bcmwl-kernel-source' via usb, in hope that Broadcom will be detected.

Hi,just installed ubuntu 9.10....however something's wrong.... it seems unable to activate my wireless driver (which is non-open source)Broadcom ST3.....when i go to "Hardware Drivers" and click on activate Broadcom ST3, ubuntu simply asks for a password and then does nothing! pls help! thanks in advance

Ok, so this is my (anoying) problem

It's imposible to activate any Hardware Drivers (proprietary) I just installed ubuntu, so i don't see why this would happen. I haved installed ubuntu and activated drivers before. But this time, just as soon as i click the ''activate'' button, it hangs in there, for ever, and for ever, for ever...

I have a Dell laptop. I was running Ubuntu 11.10 32 bit. During that time wireless was working fine. Yesterday I updated my os to 12.04.now wireless is not working.

I have tried installing b43 installer and b43 cutter from software center and activate Broadcom driver. It did not work.

i have installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my Lenovo G550 laptop. It has a Broadcom 4312 wireless lan adapter which is not working.

How do I fix it. How can I see what drivers are being used.

Hey all,

My first 'issue' with 10.10, and it's not on my computer, but on a friends.

I am only here for a short time, so Im trying to figure this out as soon as possible.

I have a dell inspiron 1525 32bits with ubuntu 11.04 gnome 2.32.1, processor architecture i686 and upgraded the kernel from 2.6.38-8 to 2.6.39. Everything appears to be fine except that I no longer have wireless. I tried to install the driver with 'Additional Drivers' and I see that the Broadcom STA wireless driver is no activated.

[ubuntu] BCM4312 on Ubuntu 9.10 3 years 28 weeks ago

This problem is really annoying me :( Here is the situation

I'm having trouble connecting to my home's wifi network, i've run the sudo lshw -C network command, and since I'm on another computer I can't type it all out but here's some info:

*-network description:Network controller product: BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY vendor: broadcom corporation

If any info is needed, ask, and I'll gladly provide it.