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Okay, so you will probably think I'm crazy, but I had so many problems with Windows, I decided to reinstall XP...fat lotta good that did. So I tried lubuntu, not knowing anything about it or programming.

It works pretty well too, but for some reason I can't get a wireless connection. I've read other posts, and get lost in the technical jargon. I don't even know what a gui master controller utility, or whatever they said, is. "Wireless networks" is greyed out, as is "device not ready (firmware missing)" when I put my mouse over the networks icon in my tray.

How do I get this thing to connect without being tied to the ethernet cable I am currently using? Details and laymen's terms, please. This is a Dell latitude d600. Beyond that, I couldn't give any more detail about the hardware.

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The driver for the Dell Latitude D600 could be one of this 2:

BCM4306 - pci:id 14e4:4324

BCM4309 - pci:id 14e4:4324 (rev 02)

As seen in Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers it shows that 14e4:4324 can work with the linux-firmware-nonfree package. Just follow the guide in that question to solve it. I won't mark this as duplicate of that one because you have a 50% chance of having the other version, the 14e4:4324 (rev 02) so I will wait to see how it goes with the recommendation and if you can run lspci -nn -d 14e4: on the terminal to see which version you actually have and to which package you actually need to install.

In the case it is the rev 02 before accepting this answer, please respond so we can added to the long list of Broadcom drivers in a comment.

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