I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my desktop and in the network setting it shows that the wireless card firmware is missing; The network is belkin F5D7000 Wireless Network Adapter.
1 Answer
It appears some versions of this adapter use a Broadcom chipset, in which case you can solve your problem by installing these packages from a terminal:
First run sudo apt-get update
, and then run:
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer
Then reboot, and see if it works.
If not, please share the content or output of the following commands/files to better help us troubleshoot your problem (instructions in this answer): command(s): dmesg
and sudo lshw