Comment 6 for bug 162038

1. HP dv1000
with an internal broadcom corporation bcm4318 wireless modem b/g don't remember if a.
and have an external PCMCIA D-Link AirPlus Xtreme G DWL-G650 H/W Ver. B3 F/W Ver. 2.36
Ubuntu 32-bit V.9.10? (don't have the laptop in front of me as it is a friends)
2. Have installed fwcutter
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6077792&postcount=72
3. under the device drivers it says that the driver is enabled and in use but under the internet connections it says the device name and disabled in gray. (This is for internal)
4. D-link card seems to have same issue recognised at reboot but still shown in connections as disabled in gray.
5. Tryed to install netapplet (where did linux go wrong) ended up with a poorly thought out program synaptic or what ever for downloading packages or was it the poor instructions I don't know yet. It says netapplet is installed but there is no instructions on what, when, where or how on the program. The goal of installing this is to try to see if we can see my wireless network but I can't even find the program as it seems to be a background program.

The last version of Ubuntu I used was like 4 something and have used old redhat (fedora core 4) multiple versions of slax and on and on but this is the worst experience with any Linux distro I have ever had. (not that I have ever tried Linux with wireless) If some one could help please do and salvage my opinion of Ubuntu.