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• Rob Love

  

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  December 15, 2011 5:40:23 AM PST

  Hi.

  I have read all issues about wifi, trie deverything suggested and still can not get it work :(
  Can you please help me out? I am on acer extensa 5220, where wifi works fine with Ubuntu 11.10

  Here are som screens of my situation, and please say if there is anything else you need.

  THX!

  //Rob 

  
• Rob Love

  

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  December 15, 2011 5:41:02 AM PST

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  This post was edited by Rob Love at December 15, 2011 5:41:19 AM PST

  
• Rob Love

  

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  December 15, 2011 5:41:33 AM PST

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• Rob Love

  

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  December 20, 2011 11:13:57 AM PST

  And here is the solution that worked for me:
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1806394
• biff baxter

  

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  December 27, 2011 4:54:14 PM PST

  Thanks for sharing Rob. I appreciate it....sorry we did not find it here, but the Ubuntu community is gigantic, and that knowledge-base transfers here a lot of the time :)
  biff
• kenneth ramlot

  

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  February 27, 2012 10:04:38 AM PST

  I have had wireless issues with almost all my stand alone linux installs to laptops that have had a Broadcom wifi chip set onboard , I have found this to work,, go in and remove all the stuff with b43 in it's name and reboot, search for broadcom-wl and b43-firmware in the package manager and install those then try out the wireless again,, it has worked for me on many a Linux stand alone installs. It seems many distros are set up for dual boot and they use the wireless driver that is native to the other OS on the HDD. IE "Windblows" stuff. The broadcom-wl is a hybrid driver put out by the vendor so it works!

  
  This post was edited by kenneth ramlot at February 27, 2012 3:35:51 PM PST
• Dave .

  

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  March 13, 2012 9:41:04 AM PDT

  Looks like R6's wish list is starting to fill up (Add the ability to use Wireless).
• biff baxter

  

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  March 13, 2012 11:24:14 AM PDT

  R5 wireless works fine. Its when you get into proprietary chipsets and windows based drivers that are an issue. So adding the ability to use wireless is there. This will be a problem for every Linux distro. (notice Kenneth says "all my stand alone linux installs").
  
  tks....biff