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Originally it was just my home wifi. So I started using my wireless "egg" to connect to the Internet or my cell phone hotspot. Now I can't connect to those either. My home wireless doesn't even show up anymore as a wireless option (although it does on other devices), and for my egg and phone hotspot it just continually searches and searches without connecting.

iwconfig:
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth1      IEEE 802.11abg  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:on

eth0      no wireless extensions.

What sorts of things would you like to see to help me?

Thanks Ubuntu community!

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  • It is safe to run it was written by me and some good friends it will help diagnose your wireless issue. Paste this command in a terminal wget -N -t 5 -T 10 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57264241/wireless_script && chmod +x wireless_script && ./wireless_script It will download a script and create a file named (wireless-info.txt, or wireless-info.txt.tar.gz) in your home folder paste the contents of the file here pastebin.com then paste the link back here.
    – Wild Man
    Oct 14, 2013 at 1:04
  • Here you go Wild Man: pastebin.com/mbwHqjjP
    – 10korea
    Oct 14, 2013 at 11:35
  • I should mention that I can now connect to wireless through other avenues at home - my egg and my phone hotspot - but those are hit and miss. My computer still cannot see my home wifi, which is visible on my phone, my wife's phone and her notebook.
    – 10korea
    Oct 14, 2013 at 12:04
  • it appears you have a bug in that driver, where did you install it from?
    – Wild Man
    Oct 14, 2013 at 17:16
  • I don't recall for sure. My computer came factory installed with Ubuntu and the drivers on it. Should I contact Dell and tell them to give me a new driver for my wireless? How do I resolve it?
    – 10korea
    Oct 14, 2013 at 22:44

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Let's update the driver and see if we can get it working. Download the driver from here make sure to download the driver for your system, i386 for a 32bit system or amd64 for 64bit system. Download it to your download folder then run:

sudo dpkg -i ~/Downloads/bcmwl-kernel-source_6.20.155.1+bdcom-0ubuntu6_amd64.deb
sudo modprobe -rv wl
sudo modprobe wl

Edit:

gksudo gedit /etc/pm/power.d/wireless

(this will create or edit a configuration file that will override the default power management behavior) and enter the following:

#!/bin/sh
/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 power off 

above exit0, then save gedit, close and reboot.

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  • I got an "error while processing": pastebin.com/X5RDDKn6. I proceeded with the other two commands anyway, which just shut off and turned on my wireless connection.
    – 10korea
    Oct 16, 2013 at 20:34
  • By the way Mad Man, you rock. Thanks so much for all this great help.
    – 10korea
    Oct 16, 2013 at 20:37
  • Please do sudo apt-get purge --remove bcmwl-kernel-source then try again.
    – Wild Man
    Oct 16, 2013 at 20:57
  • Strange. Nothing changed. pastebin.com/sbu4RsiR
    – 10korea
    Oct 16, 2013 at 21:06
  • By the way I need to write and read Korean so I installed those language packs. Relevant?
    – 10korea
    Oct 16, 2013 at 21:08

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