HP G72 with Ubuntu 10.04.1 fails to see builtin wireless adapter

[Mark]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Albert Wagner <albertwagner at cox.net> wrote:
> Just got this HP G72 laptop with Windows 7 installed.  After testing that
> the wireless adapter worked in Windows, I then installed Ubuntu 10.04.1.
> The builtin Broadcom adapter is not recognized by Ubuntu.  It thinks that
> all it has is a eth0 that is not connected.  I found a note in the docs that
> if both eth0 and wireless were available on a machine that only the eth0
> would be used.
>
> Thanks ahead for any advice on how to proceed.
>
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