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My Wireless driver is deactivated and I had it before. I know that it's there, it just won't show. Ubuntu in it's full-gloried-smartness wants to download the wireless driver. (FYI, my LAN port is broken, snapped pins. )
The driver should be there from before. Any clue how to re-enable it from the local copy of the driver? I shouldn't need to re-download it.
- Ubuntu saw the card and used the right driver.
- I upgraded from 9.04 to 9.10.
- Ubuntu saw the card and did not use the driver.
ifconfig doesn't show wireless card. It's a Broadcom chipset. "Broadcom STA Wireless driver"
1the upgrade installed a new kernel version, so it needs to get the right driver again. you might be able to find the firmware file it's wanting to download, tho. offhand i'm not sure where to look for it... /lib/firmware or some such maybe. do you know the chipset? what does
dmesg
say about the device? – quack quixote – 2009-12-11T06:37:52.043dmesg
is a program that outputs kernel messages. just rundmesg
(or more usefully,dmesg | less
ordmesg | tail
ordmesg | grep something
) – quack quixote – 2009-12-11T15:54:08.167