Ok thanks to all of you. I got the driver installed, without hassles once I got connected via LAN.. and now Broadcom STA is installed and hence I can go wireless! Yeah, I have got a rather older version of kernel 2.6.35-22-generic.. it works fine with it..
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:00 PM, James Sebastian <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > >> On 3 February 2011 17:46, Neha Jain <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> I tried to run maverick first from the CD, live everything was working >>>> absolutely fine. Then I installed(simply, erase and install) maverick on >>>> the >>>> machine, but it ended up with an I/O error. I tried again, again the same >>>> error. Next time I tried to install after rebooting, though it got >>>> installed, but when I tried to activate the Broadcom STA wireless driver, >>>> it >>>> never showed up in the apt-cache or in the >>>> system->admininstrator->additional drivers. >>>> >>>> May not be related, but be aware that broadcom driver can be broken due > to latest kernel. So validate that you are not on latest kernel from ubuntu. > > I faced problem Broadcom STA driver failing to load on > linux-image-2.6.32-25-generic (the latest kernel update which appeared today > in my update manager.). I reverted back to linux-image-2.6.35-24-generic and > got my Broadcom STA driver working again. > > I filed a bug on it as below. > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/712293 > > Regards, > James > > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > > -- Smiles Neha )))))
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