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I'm using a Gateway 7580gx running 10.10. It had Windows XP on it original. After running a clean install of XP I was unable to connect to WiFi. I tried a few things but nothing worked. So in thought about installing Ubuntu and hoping that would magically fix it, but no luck. If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. One last thing, I'm still very new to ubuntu and linux. Thx!

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No reason. One thing at a time. – user69593 Jun 10 '12 at 0:34
Add the information of the Network card to your question. – Uri Herrera Jun 10 '12 at 0:52
? how about, product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g does that help? – user69593 Jun 10 '12 at 1:11
It may be that the "Wireless interface" is disabled. After running $sudo lshw -class network, I see three (*-network)'s and the the last one says "DISABLED" could this be the problem? – user69593 Jun 10 '12 at 1:18
I'm also seeing "firmware=N/A". Don't know? – user69593 Jun 10 '12 at 1:21
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closed as too localized by qbi, Eric Carvalho, Seth, Jai, vasa1 Mar 3 at 9:54

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