so i installed ubuntu and now i can't use wifi, which is a problem. I downloaded the drivers for windows here, I downloaded Windows Wireless Drivers from the ubuntu software center, which didnt work. So now i don't know what to do help?
Can you post your specs? Knowing the card might help, also try to see if the livecd had the drivers, and try to see if another distribution works (Manjaro is easy to install and comes preloaded with drivers you might need)
sorry completely forgot, its the buffalo tech WLI2-PCI-G54S
http://www.buffalotech.com/support-and-downloads/downloads
type the product id in there and it show all the info
Yep so far manjaro has been my best experience for drivers.
whats manjaro?
Your wifi card is not supported by linux.
You can try using ndiswrapper with the windows driver but you're probably better off using another wifi card.
Ignore everyone else is this thread.
edit: FYI the WLI2-USB2-G54 is supported so you can probably port it easily (drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54usb.c).
Satya neen is there any time you aren't so abrasive?
How am I abrasive? Changing the distributions won't help because the card is simply not supported by the kernel so your "help" is utter bullshit and really harmful.
Well last time I checked manjaro used a newer kernal so therefore it may have better hardware support no? Also saying ignore every one else in the thread is rude regardless if they are wrong or off topic. And people with your attitude is more harmful and toxic to the forums then my suggestion and experience.
That's true but the wifi card has no driver in 3.14.
Also saying ignore every one else in the thread is rude regardless if they are wrong or off topic
Why?
And people with your attitude is more harmful and toxic to the forums then my suggestion and experience.
What's my attitude? Wanting to help people? Yeah, so harmful and toxic.
Yup, that's most probably a legacy broadcom wlan chip, and it's supported by the linux kernel, but the firmware of the chip has to be loaded. This is necessary because it's proprietary firmware. Most modern distros will load the proprietary driver that works together with that firmware automatically, and the linux kernel's b43 module will then access the wlan chip without problem through the proprietary code that bridges the firmware and the open source driver in the kernel.
To load that firmware, you need a tool called b43-fwcutter. It's in the repos of most modern distros (all RPM-distros, Gentoo, Arch, etc...). On .DEB distros, you can install it with apt-get install b43-fwcutter. If it doesn't return anything, than you're out of luck and need to upgrade to another distro. Don't use patch tools, i.e. tools that try to accomplish the same as the direct flashing of the wlan chip with fwcutter, but without fwcutter itself, because chances are great that you'll end up with an intermittently dropping connection or a destroyed card. Fwcutter is completely automated, you can't do anything wrong with it.
I would suggest a bleeding edge distro. Even Fedora 20 is only supplied with kernel 3.11.9 or so, and there are still some wlan cards not supported, so you have to update first, so that the system gets kernel 3.13, to have all the latest and greatest. Kernel 3.12 had a lot of wlan drivers added and a lot of new firmwares, make sure that you're running at least on kernel 3.12.