Comment 8 for bug 573273

Thanks, you beat me to it with the debug info! Okay, I think I've spotted at least a first issue which may be causing that problem. For some reason, the device has been configured to use a very old driver, and in the release of 10.04 there was actually an update to a brand new open source driver for the Broadcom chipset that's in your wifi stick.

Could you:

sudo rmmod rndis_wlan (this can be undone if we have no success using insmod)

Then, go to Hardware Drivers under System -> Administration, and see if it is possible to activate the B43 driver for the wifi chip. Apparently some people are having issues with this, but it's perfectly possible to install it using the software centre/synpatic too.

Failing that, install package b43-fwcutter using synaptic.

Then go back to hardware drivers, and see if it is possible to install the B43 driver again.

If not, then please run:

sudo sh /usr/share/b43-fwcutter/install_bcm43xx_firmware.sh

and reboot.

Hopefully, this will work. If not, we can try proprietary Broadcom drivers. What's caused it to install such an old driver is quite beyond me though, presumably something to do with how the USB stick identifies itself. Let us know what happens!

@ other affected user, could you please run:

sudo lshw -C network

and copy and paste the output?

Thanks!