not able to get wireless networking to work

[Cathy Buck]

Just installed 11.10 on my spouse's Dell Inspiron 1720 . It still has crappy Vista on it also because she wants it too. How do I easily setup 11.10 for wireless ??

No plug and pray fun here !!

These are last actions related to question 179018

cathybuck@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
[sudo] password for cathybuck:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for cathybuck:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
b43-fwcutter is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
cathybuck@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
b43-fwcutter is already the newest version.
firmware-b43-installer is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
cathybuck@ubuntu:~$ ^C
cathybuck@ubuntu:~$

actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said 5 hours ago: #28
Ok then reboot then use the driver application and enable the driver.

Cathy Buck (cbuck1951) said 3 hours ago: #29
I rebooted unplugged the LAN wired connection from the router. I then went to the driver app this info was there
This package contains Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA wireless driverfor use with Broadcom's BCM4311-, BCM4312-, BCM4313-, BCM4321-,BCM4322-, BCM43224-, and BCM43225-, BCM43227- and BCM43228-basedhardware.
This driver is activated and currently in use

However I have no wireless connectivity. I plugged back in again. Now what ?
Cathy Buck (cbuck1951) said 3 hours ago: #30
whenever I get done with this and it finally works wirelessly I will be an expert !
Cathy Buck (cbuck1951) said 3 hours ago: #31
plug and play? where are you when I need you
Phil Buck (buckster51) said 3 hours ago: #32
My wireless device is BCM4311

actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said 1 hour ago: #33
Al I can recommend is report a bug

[Cathy Buck (cbuck1951)]

reported Bug. Is anyone going to help on this? Is there some sort of patch or a way to fix this??

[Cathy Buck (cbuck1951)]

day 2 still no wireless access have to go for a while.

[Phil Buck (buckster51)]

Hello can someone help please ?

[Phil Buck (buckster51)]

no one can help? Maybe Just a walk thru on my wireless networking install seeing/checking if what I did passes muster? Could the router be a problem? Just looking for a fix here.

[Matt Fischer (mfisch)]

Thank you for reporting this issue. It does not appear to be a bug in gnome-nettools and it seems that when you submitted it as a question, link below, that it was resolved for you. Therefore I am going to mark this as a question too and duplicate it to the successful one so that other people can use the same steps.

Successful setup steps:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-nettool/+question/179018

In the future you could always try IRC or http://askubuntu.com as well as asking here.