Wireless Card on my Laptop

[MrKnisely]

Timothy A. Holmes wrote:

>Hi Folks:
>
>So far the conversion to Ubuntu on my laptop has gone pretty well,
>however there have been a few bumps along the way that I will be trying
>to address over the next couple weeks.  Id love to have it working right
>for Christmas break.  
>
>The first (and perhaps most annoying) is the lack of wireless networking
>
>The laptop has a Broadcom BCM4306 802.11 b/g onboard wireless nic, which
>Breezy totally refuses to do anything with.  The device manager detects
>that it is there, but breezy does not acknowledge it exists beyond that.
>
>On Hoary I tried to use NDISWRAPPER, but failed for lack of decent
>instructions to follow.  Is this still the preferred alternative, or is
>there a better way to go?  Has NDISWRAPPER been updated for breezy, have
>the instructions?
>
>Any help / suggestions etc would be most helpful
>
>Thanks
>
>TIM
>
>
>Timothy A. Holmes
>IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher
> 
>Medina Christian Academy
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I used the instructions on this forum to get mine up.  Here is a link:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=25683&highlight=Broadcom

Make sure you READ AND FOLLOW the instructions.  If you have a quiestion 
about a step, post back before winging it.

We'll get you going!

I'm typing this message from my HP laptop using my Broadcom wireless for 
my Internet connection.  It can be done.

MrKnisely