Actually just had the same problem upgrading the kernel yesterday (not the first time this has happened either) - Wrote a little howto and put it on my site:
HOWTO fix wireless card using restricted drivers in Linux (Ubuntu) http://einarpetersen.com/doku.php?id=howto_-_reenable_wireless But back to the questions posed Running Gutsy uname -a Linux laptop 2.6.22-16-generic #1 SMP Mon Nov 24 18:28:27 GMT 2008 i686 GNU/Linux Is the latest kernel upgrade dmesg - just comes up with a load of suppressed messages, however following my howto I got it working again, hope others can do the same. install_bcm43xx_firmware.sh is present in my usr/share directory /bcm43xx-fwcutter directory and bcm43xx_microcode11.fw is present in /lib/firmware Let me know if you need any other input. -- lost wireless after upgrading to 2.6.24-19 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/242876 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs