The old wireless problem

Question

I am suffering from the same old wireless problem. I tried everything I could find on the net as well as Ubuntu forums, but nothing works.

How can I fix this??

my device information from lshw -C network:

***product: BCM4311 802.11a/b/g
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
configuration: driver=wl latency=0***

To me, what I was able to learn from the net, the driver is just the right one. but still it isn't working.

iwconfig shows:

**lo   no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.**

What other information do you need?

was it working earlier and what is the point it stopped working? — , Dec 26 '13 at 13:02

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 26 '13 at 13:21

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The same old problem deserves the same old answer. The Broadcom STA proprietary driver offered by the Additional Drivers tool is wrong for your Broadcom 4311 device. Please get a temporary wired ethernet connection, open a terminal and do:

sudo apt-get remove --purge bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree

Detach the ethernet, reboot and give us your report.

answered Dec 26 '13 at 13:21

chili555

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excellent! thank you very much sir. that worked... – abbas Dec 27 '13 at 10:08

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