I tried to post something yesterday but for some reason it disappeared into the ether never to be seen again.

I have a similar Broadcom card in my laptop and the latest version of Ubuntu has switched to using a different driver for some Broadcom cards to previous versions. When it installs the drivers you need an internet connection or it will all go pear shaped.

Mine shows up as eth1 rather than wlan? but it works OK (well it doesn't play nicely with conky). I did upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 rather than doing a fresh install though.

Mint has a link to Broadcom who seem to supply a nix driver now. Need to get on the cable so I've got all the dependencies. Preferring the look of Mint to Ubuntu for the moment. More normal

Mint has a link to Broadcom who seem to supply a nix driver now. Need to get on the cable so I've got all the dependencies. Preferring the look of Mint to Ubuntu for the moment. More normal

That's the driver I mean (wl.ko module) rather than the B43 driver which came with the previous versions. Mint is just Ubuntu without unity and their fork of Gnome instead.

Yes that's the one. I got the driver moved across on USB but it was getting late and I couldn't be bothing fishing and transferring all the libraries.

Bugger. Finally get it all working just after previously giving up and ordering a wifi card. It'll be going straight back on Ebay then.

Linux is weird these days. Broadcom wifi was finally fixed by tweaking rkill and resetting the bios. Nothing to do with firmware or drivers.