Newbie question...

[Nils Kassube]

Roy Smith wrote:
> Yeah, that's just what I had gathered.  I have the files needed to set
> up the b43 driver, but when it gets finished it said that a restart is
> required.  So then if you did that, you wind up back at square one,
> sigh....

You could try to unload the module for the wireless card and load it 
again. I don't know if that really works, but it is at least worth a try. 
From what you wrote I suppose you use the b43 kernel module. You can 
enter these commands in a terminal after you have installed the firmware:

sudo rmmod b43
sudo modprobe b43


Nils