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    Has the driver for my wireless card been dropped from the kernel?

    I did a clean installation Kubuntu 13.10 just now, and I can't connect to my router wirelessly (ethernet still works).

    Wireless on Kubuntu 13.04 works just fine (it's still installed on another partition).

    Has the driver for my card been dropped? Is there somewhere I can check for things like this?

    Code:
    feathers@62-West-Wallaby-Street:~$ sudo lshw -c network
      *-network               
           description: Wireless interface
           product: BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter
           vendor: Broadcom Corporation
           physical id: 0
           bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
           logical name: eth1
           version: 01
           serial: cc:52:af:93:cb:4a
           width: 64 bits
           clock: 33MHz
           capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
           configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=6.30.223.141 (r415941) latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abg
           resources: irq:17 memory:f0100000-f0103fff
      *-network
           description: Ethernet interface
           product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
           vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
           physical id: 0
           bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
           logical name: eth0
           version: 03
           serial: 64:31:50:64:99:3b
           size: 1Gbit/s
           capacity: 1Gbit/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 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
           configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw ip=192.168.1.113 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s
           resources: irq:43 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:f0004000-f0004fff memory:f0000000-f0003fff memory:f0010000-f001ffff
    Thanks,

    Feathers
    samhobbs.co.uk

    #2
    Here's the output from 13.04

    Code:
    feathers-mcgraw@62-West-Wallaby-Street:~$ sudo lshw -c network
    [sudo] password for feathers-mcgraw: 
      *-network               
           description: Network controller
           product: BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller
           vendor: Broadcom Corporation
           physical id: 0
           bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
           version: 01
           width: 64 bits
           clock: 33MHz
           capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
           configuration: driver=bcma-pci-bridge latency=0
           resources: irq:17 memory:f0100000-f0103fff
      *-network
           description: Ethernet interface
           product: RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
           vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
           physical id: 0
           bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
           logical name: eth0
           version: 03
           serial: 64:31:50:64:99:3b
           size: 10Mbit/s
           capacity: 1Gbit/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 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
           configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
           resources: irq:43 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:f0004000-f0004fff memory:f0000000-f0003fff memory:f0010000-f001ffff
      *-network
           description: Wireless interface
           physical id: 2
           logical name: wlan0
           serial: cc:52:af:93:cb:4a
           capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
           configuration: broadcast=yes driver=brcmsmac driverversion=3.8.0-31-generic firmware=N/A ip=192.168.1.106 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
    The extra wireless device at the bottom here is an external wifi dongle.

    I guess I should install the "bcma-pci-bridge" in Kubuntu 13.10?

    Feathers
    samhobbs.co.uk

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      #3
      Did you run Jockey to see if it can detect the Broadcom wireless NIC and download/install the driver?

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        #4
        Nope. Does Jockey install proprietary drivers?

        I was using free drivers on 13.04, and my experience with the prop. driver is that it causes problems for other devices trying to connect to the same router.

        Feathers
        samhobbs.co.uk

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          #5
          I realise now that Jockey is the "Additional Drivers" tool, I have used it before but didn't know it was called Jockey!

          Had a look and a prop. driver was installed, but clearly it isn't working. It can find networks but when I try to connect it repeatedly asks for the WPA key. I'm not typing it in wrong, but it won't connect.

          On the bright side, I quite like the new network settings interface

          Feathers
          samhobbs.co.uk

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