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I have a "Dell inspiron 1564" and ubuntu doesn't find my friends router it works great at home, he has a vodafone router. Ethernet works but WIFI doesn't work. I even find his neighbors router, my ubuntu simply doesn't find their router :/

hope this tells something about my network card

 jeggy@jeggy-XPS:~$ sudo lshw -C network
 *-network               
       description: Wireless interface
       product: BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
       logical name: eth1
       version: 01
       serial: 78:e4:00:2a:d1:eb
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=5.100.82.38 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
       resources: irq:17 memory:f0200000-f0203fff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 02
       serial: b8:ac:6f:67:32:52
       size: 10Mbit/s
       capacity: 100Mbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
       resources: irq:42 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:f0410000-f0410fff memory:f0400000-f040ffff memory:f0420000-f043ffff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       physical id: 4
       logical name: ham0
       serial: 7a:79:05:ff:3e:ec
       size: 10Mbit/s
       capabilities: ethernet physical
       configuration: autonegotiation=off broadcast=yes driver=tun driverversion=1.6 duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=5.255.62.236 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=10Mbit/s
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Same issue..i am having this issue with my AT&T Uverse modem. It connects to every other network i tried (my neighbor's, wifi at school) Any help will is appreciated... – user141504 Mar 18 at 22:28
this was my friends laptop and it didn't work when he was at me, but now it works. He has Ubuntu 12.10 with openbox now, and 12.04 back then. maybe if you upgrade to 12.10 it will work – Jeggy Mar 22 at 18:46

closed as too localized by The Lord of Time, Seth, Eric Carvalho, Jorge Castro, maggotbrain Mar 19 at 2:47

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