Wireless not working on HP pavilion dm5

Question

I have tried to help my friend out with his wireless problems he is running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS but the regular bcma wireless driver isn't working. He has to be about a foot away from the Access point in order to get internet.

He can not install the Broadcom STA wireless driver via jockey and can not find it in the repositories? I know my computer shows it in the repositories.

How can we fix this?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 14 '12 at 16:40

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Install synaptic form the Ubuntu Software Center

In Synaptic select bcmwl-kernel-source and bcmwl-sta-source

Then install it.

I'm sorry you must have a connection internet try wired.

edited Nov 14 '12 at 16:40

stephenmyall

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answered Nov 14 '12 at 16:16

You should expand your answer to explain how the instructions you gave will resolve the OPs issue. – stephenmyall Nov 14 '12 at 16:43
On Ubuntu 12.10, the package names have changed:
sudo apt-get install broadcom-sta-source bcmwl-kernel-source
– Alex Boisvert Dec 04 '12 at 21:40

Wireless not working on HP pavilion dm5

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