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I'm new to Linux, and installing Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop. I'm liking Ubuntu, but I can't get a WLAN driver, so I'm stuck without an easy connection to the internet. I've been searching around the web for a while, and can't find anything that works.

The laptop is an HP Pavilion dv6408nr. Here is a link to the specs http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01061065&lang=en&cc=us&taskId=101&prodSeriesId=3308890&prodTypeId=321957

I may be mistaken, but I believe the WLAN card is Broadcom BCM94311MCG

My output from lspci is:

00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51 [Geforce Go 6150] (rev a2)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0a.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PMU (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev f1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev f1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
07:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
07:05.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
07:05.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 0a)
07:05.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 05)

I don't see the driver available in System > Administration > Additional Drivers.

Again, I'm totally new to Linux, so please help me fix the problem/find the driver in an easy-to-understand way.

Thank you!

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Why are you using 10.10? it is out of support, using a newer version that contains a newer kernel that probably has a driver for your wifi chip would be better. – Uri Herrera Jul 2 '12 at 8:07
I've heard from multiple people (every friend I know who uses Linux) that 10.10 is the best, and that they ruined it in later versions. – Keavon Jul 2 '12 at 17:24
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You can install a whole lot of different Desktop environments in Ubuntu (and on linux distros for that matter), instead of depending on someone else's opinion try the new 12.04 if you don't like Unity unininstall it, simple as that and install another thing, those complaining are just fanboys and cannot simply run 1 command to install another desktop environment. Not to mention that 12.04 has better hardware support , it's an LTS, most PPAs are providing packages for 12.04 and 11.10 only and dropping support for older versions, such as Wine which currently is at 1.5, 10.10 ver. is 1.3, etc. – Uri Herrera Jul 2 '12 at 17:44

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