I am having the same problem here. Please help I beg. I have a new Dell inspiron 1525n laptop. I just wiped it and installed a fresh Ubuntu9.10. I selected the Broadcom STA wireless driver in "Hardware Drivers". I rebooted the laptop but now network manager shows (greyed out) wireless is disabled. When i do Ifconfig it shows the wireless driver as eth2 eth0 is the wired lan card.
eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 70:1a:04:6d:5f:2b inet6 addr: fe80::721a:4ff:fe6d:5f2b/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Interrupt:17 Base address:0xc000 Iwconfig gives me this eth2 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"" Nickname:"" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:off Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Power Managementmode:All packets received So the wireless seems to be OK it looks like a problem with Network Manager. How do i fix this please i beg. -- Broadcom BCM4312 Wireless networks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/410963 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs