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I have a Dell inspirion 1545 and I just figured out how to get my wireless card to work. Hazzah!! I say, Hazzah!! However, I now have an interesting issue. If I turn off my laptop, when I turn it back on I have no wireless again. I have found that using the additional drivers interface to uninstall then activate the broadcom STA then it starts working again. My question is, is there a way for me to be able to not have to do this every time I turn on my laptop? I'd like to be able to turn it on and it work the way it's supposed to.

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Do you use a Live CD/USB? If so, then no, you can save drivers. Do a proper installation. – mikewhatever May 27 '12 at 4:58
No, it's the internal wireless card that came with my laptop. I don't plug anything into my laptop to give it wireless. – user65929 May 27 '12 at 5:07
Is Ubuntu properly installed, or do you run it from CD/USB? – mikewhatever May 27 '12 at 7:47
Ubuntu is installed properly on my laptop. I do not run it from any media other than the hard drive. – user65929 May 27 '12 at 19:13
Thanks for clarifying that, generally, you shouldn't need to re-activate the driver. To troubleshoot, you'll need to add some technical info to the question. Please open a terminal window and add the outputs of the following to the question: lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net, ifconfig, ifconfig, lsmod | grep -e wl -e ssb -e 43. If you can't edit the question, please use pastebin.com. – mikewhatever May 27 '12 at 21:28

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