Well, I have been having issues with Ubuntu that have put me off using it very often recently. So I downloaded and installed 8.10 last night. Once again I have issues with the wireless setup, but there appears to be some hope.
In the tutorials and tips section of the Ubuntu Forums there is a post on how to get Broadcom wireless working.
Apparently, Broadcom have released a linux based driver, for the Dell Ubuntu Laptops, but this appears to allow others using similar wireless chipsets the ability to steal the driver and get it working.
Pretty much on the Hardware Driver Manager where you get the controlled drivers running, there is an option for Broadcom STA drivers, which is the one to choose, rather than the B43.
I will try it out when I get home, as I had no real luck with ndiswrapper or the Broadcom B43 drivers (it did work - once - when I was plugged in via ethernet) and see how I get on.
My laptop (ASUS F5R) runs a Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01) wireless card. In the thread listed above, there are only two or three mentions of that particular card, with all of them being successful with the Broadcom STA drivers.
Hopefully mine will be as well.
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After installing 8.10 Ibex I was pleased with the overall outcome. That is until I installed the RTA restricted wireless driver.
I encountered problems with the STA drivers. It loaded and connected to my network easily; however, I immediately noticed problems and system quirks that did not exist with the wired connection.
Internet, admin applications, and graphics programs were sluggish and locked up constantly. Force quit was used much too frequent for my liking.
Kiba Dock was also affected as well; pulse titles were disabled while the STA drivers were activated. Enabling the zoom feature caused Kiba to lock up.
I deactivated the STA driver and activated the Broadcom B43 driver.
All problems stopped. Internet speed increased dramatically. Problems with Kiba and other applications ceased.
Obviously Ubuntu did not fully test the STA drivers, nor did they take into account the affects this driver has on other applications. Perhaps Canonical will have this worked out soon, as for now this driver should be considered unstable and not be used.
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