I started the week with an HP 1000 netbook running the HP Mobile Internet Experience (
this) and once I figured out that it was a "closed" system and couldn't install anything I downloaded Kubuntu 9.10 and installed it. Great. Awesome even. Everything installed except my wireless. Whatever, I can fix that, right?
So I Google some commands to figure it out and I find that Broadcom has released
an official Linux driver with instructions. I'm set now. Or so I thought.
Two hours and one fresh install of Kubuntu later I give up. I install
Ubuntu Netbook Remix (because the screen was cramped on the desktop software) and start from scratch. This time I actually get the drivers installed correctly and can access the wireless on my netbook. Yay! I ask it to download some updates and it does. It has to restart, so I say OK. On restart I don't have wireless drivers anymore. argh. How do I tell Linux to start those drivers every time it restarts? I even did the blacklist gedit thing, so I hope that's not the problem. The only thing I did was the driver install and the automatic update.
This is my first Linux install and I've learned a lot of stuff in the last 24 hours trying to get this driver running. Enough to be dangerous, at least. Any help is appreciated.