(1) lspci -vvnn: 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02) lshw -C network: *-network description: Network controller product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller vendor: Broadcom Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0 version: 02 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: bus_master configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=64 resources: irq:11 memory:5c000000-5c001fff *-network description: Wireless interface physical id: 1 logical name: wlan0 serial: 00:1c:df:4f:fe:15 capabilities: ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=b43 driverversion=2.6.35-22-generic firmware=N/A ip=192.168.0.66 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg (2) lsmod|grep b43: *-network description: Network controller product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller vendor: Broadcom Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0 version: 02 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: bus_master configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=64 resources: irq:11 memory:5c000000-5c001fff *-network description: Wireless interface physical id: 1 logical name: wlan0 serial: 00:1c:df:4f:fe:15 capabilities: ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=b43 driverversion=2.6.35-22-generic firmware=N/A ip=192.168.0.66 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg (3) lsmod | grep 43: 43 168681 0 ssb 39288 1 b43 mac80211 231541 1 b43 cfg80211 144470 2 b43,mac80211 led_class 2633 2 b43,fujitsu_laptop (4) ndiswrapper is NOT installed. (5) cat /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf # replaced by b43 and ssb. blacklist bcm43xx (6) iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"TROY" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:1F:B3:68:66:A1 Bit Rate=24 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Management:off Link Quality=49/70 Signal level=-61 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0