Ubuntu
jockey package

  1. Bug #291271
  2. Comment #26

Comment 26 for bug 291271

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bw44 (bweeks44) wrote :

I have an old HP ("Compaq") Presario laptop which I ineherited. (Based on my experience I would not buy another HP, for the reasons that CrYpTiC_MauleR mentioned.) I am running Ubuntu 8.04 (up-to-date), dual-booted with Windows XP SP2 (up-to-date). My system does NOT have a Nvidia graphics card.

Wireless works fine under XP (using the bcmwl5.sys driver). Wireless worked fine under Ubuntu 7.10 with ndiswrapper and the bcm43xx restricted driver (though it took me a while to get that working).

Wireless does not work for me with Ubuntu 8.04, although the Hardware Drivers applet shows the Broadcom STA wireless driver is "enabled" and its status is "in use". I tried blacklisting the modules as per pstucke's earlier suggestion, but this didn't help.

I doubt this helps anyone very much, except to point out the problem can occur without there being a conflict with a Nvidia card.