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On 27/10/10 17:43, Rob Beard wrote:
Thanks for the help. I will do some research. What surprises me is that I had no problem with Mint v7. Both Ethernet and Wifi just worked. Now I have installed v9 I am having problems.I have a feeling that the Broadcom BCM 4318 is your wifi card and may need a firmware or proprietary driver. I'm in the process of fixing a laptop for a friend which also has a Broadcom wifi card (not sure if it's the same one mind) and when booting in Ubuntu 10.04 it comes up with a message saying that something is required, I think it may be a restricted driver. This forum post covers this particular card on Ubuntu 10.04 (which I believe Mint 9 is based on): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1507981 Doing a search on Ubuntu 10.10 I find that there is a package firmware-b43-installer in the repositories which is an installer package for the firmware for this wifi card although on the forum post someone suggests installing b43-fwcutter. Of course to download these packages you'll need to plug your machine into a wired network connection (the Realtek 8139 wired ethernet should be supported out of the box). Hope this helps. Rob
Perhaps they are working on the system so beloved of our politicians. Does it work? Yes? Oh well, we had better change it then.
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