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I just installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my hp Pavilion dv5000 but it doesn't seen to recegnise the wireless network and it says Wireless Networks device not ready (firmware missing) Is this some kind of update that I can download?? I would really like to get this problem fixed because a laptop is almost worthless if you are tied to the wired Internet all the time!!! Thanks

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Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! We need more hardware information to help you, can you look at this question and then edit your question adding the information? – Jorge Castro Feb 22 at 3:20
need "sudo lshw -class network" and "sudo lspci" information – blueXrider Feb 22 at 3:28
This is what i get – Nathan Feb 22 at 3:53
:~$ sudo lshw -class network [sudo] password for nathan: *-network:0 description: Network controller product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller vendor: Broadcom Corporation physical id: 2 bus info: pci@0000:06:02.0 version: 02 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: bus_master configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=64 resources: irq:21 memory:c0200000-c0201fff *-network:1 – Nathan Feb 22 at 3:55
*-network:1 description: Ethernet interface product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. physical id: 6 bus info: pci@0000:06:06.0 logical name: eth0 version: 10 serial: 00:16:d4:04:8c:cf size: 100Mbit/s capacity: 100Mbit/s width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz – Nathan Feb 22 at 3:57
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It would appear you need to sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

Manpage for Ubuntu: here

additional information from linuxwireless here

Instead of a computer restart, in a terminal issue the following commands:

sudo modprobe -r b43 ssb wl and 

sudo modprobe wl

Note: Allow several seconds for the network manager to scan for available networks before attempting a connection.

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