Acer wireless adapter not powered in Ubuntu

[marcobra (Marco Braida)]

I just installed Ubuntu 8.10 to Acer 5000 laptop that also has Windows XP.

The wireless adapter incorporated is Broadcom BCM4318 [Air Force One 54g] 802.11g.

The adapter is not recognized by Ubuntu and when I check Hardware drivers states that "No proprietary drivers are in use on this system" so apparently none of the windows drivers that were operating the devices were installed for Ubuntu.

I think this is a bug please see the solved question https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/49936

Thank you

[Przemek K. (azrael)]

Are you sure it wasn't just the bcm43xx firmware that needed to be downloaded?
Can you check if this bug is still present in the latest Ubuntu 9.10?

[Przemek K. (azrael)]

I'm closing this bug because I've received no response from the original reporter nor from any commenter.
Please test the latest Ubuntu version (9.10 or 10.04) and report a new bug if necessary.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

Also please note that the bcm43xx driver has been replaced by b43 and b43legacy in the latest Ubuntu releases.
But you still need to download the firmware for them, either manually or by installing b43-fwcutter while on a wired (cable) connection.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx#Installing%20BCM43xx%20drivers