I installed Ubuntu 8.04 about 3 weeks ago. I have been unsuccessful trying to get my WiFi to work. After countless online articles/instructions etc. etc. and 3 books I am still no closer to getting it to work. I can go online hardwired to my router but can not use WiFi. I received my latest book "Moving to Ubuntu Linux" by Marcel Gagne' last Thursday and that was no help either. Chapter 7, Page 144 "Going Wireless" explains things to do which do not exist. There is nothing like "Windows Wireless Drivers" in my System>Administration. And Ndiswrapper and Ndisgtk don't work using the Terminal. I copied the Widows Driver files bcmwl6.sys and bcmwl6.inf over to a directory etc/WINDRV in Ubuntu.
I have done nothing else in Ubuntu, because I was obsessed with getting wireless to work. Now, I'm not sure if I want to bother messing with Linux anymore. Very frustrating. Not as easy as you make it out to be.
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