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How can I get Broadcom BCM4311 Wireless working?

I have an Ideapad U330 with a Broadcom Wlan card.

Originally I was on Maverick. And my card worked fine. I had to manually enable wireless every time I booted up but that wasn't a big hassle for me.

Then I switched to Natty. It recognized my Broadcoam, suggested the driver in Additional Hardware, and installed it. However, nothing worked in Natty. I would click "Enable Wireless" and nothing would work. Or it would give me a message saying that Wireless was Disabled due to the hardware switch being off---when it wasn't.

So then I completely erased everything, went back to Maverick, and my wireless is working now.

I'm curious though. Would upgrading directly from Maverick using Synaptic work?

Is this a big issue for Broadcom drivers going into Natty?

Any information or insight would be much appreciated. You guys and gals are always the best help on here.

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Joe
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Just also posted this in another similar post

I would perhaps re install your drivers which should not take long Do this via a terminal and you should see if anything goes wrong

So in a terminal type the following

sudo apt-get remove b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer

then

sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer.

This should reinstall your wifi driver

Alternatively what I have done is install the other broadcom proprietry driver STA

This was just as easy again via the terminal

Clear out any older files

sudo apt-get remove bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source
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