network issues

[Jerry Feldman]

You should install fwcutter. The real issue is the firmware. In ubuntu,
installing the fwcutter has an option to download automatically, but on
other distros you have to do this youself
On Apr 6, 2011 12:00 PM, "dan moylan" <jdm-LPA1KyJyIuz1P9xLtpHBDw at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>>jdm wrote:
>>> eth0 shows up from dmesg, so the networking gui can't make
>>> any connection. the wireless is there and was used
>>> successfully in the original windows7 installation, now
>>> gone. any suggestions?
>
> dsr replied:
>> lspci to see what the hardware is. Then start googling for
>> driver compatibility.
>
> did that, and found
> 02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313
> 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev
>
> i downloaded the recommended tar file from broadcom and
> tried installing it, but got bogged down in all the missing
> details, so ...
>
> jerry suggested that ubuntu 10.10 should work out of the box,
> and indeed it did after i stumbled through a problem of my
> own making. when i first tried the installation, i got a
> messge/problem if had seen before, and had never solved:
>
> gconf-sanity-check-2 exited with status 256
>
> going to ubuntu forums i found numerous references to this
> problem and several proposed solutions, namely:
>
> chmod 755 /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.system
> chmod 1777 /tmp
> fsck -fy /dev/sda1 (when not mounted)
>
> none of these helped at all. i finally discoverd that the
> problem was due to the fact that i had kept /home/moylan
> intact and there was stuff in there that was upsetting
> gconf. i reinstalled using jdm as the basic user instead of
> moylan and the problem went away. oh, well.
>
> thanks for the help (as usual).
>
> ole dan
>
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