So I hosed my wireless connection in Hardy Heron on my HP Pavilion zv6000 when I installed the LXDE desktop environment. It was completely my fault, in my click happiness, I decided it would be cool to have the LXNM, or LX network manager, installed as well, you know to try it ALL out. So I didn't pay any attention to the fact that it conflicted with network-manager, ie what was keeping me connected to the internet. So long story short I tried several ways (Windows, Wired connection, etc.) to get it working again, I just opted to install Jaunty Jackalope, Ubuntu 9.04, which I was going to do anyways.
The installation went off without a hitch, well except for the one I knew was coming, Broadcom wireless. I did the installation with a wired connection by the way. It took some tinkering but I managed to get wireless working by following the posts on the ubuntu forums here, and more specifically post #7 here.
The tricky part is that the "obvious" way of doing it, System > System Tools > Hardware drivers, and then activating the proprietary B43 Broadcom wireless driver did not work. It would not allow me to click and activate it, so the button that is supposed to turn green, sadly, remained greyed out. What I had to do was go into synaptic and load up fw-cutter myself, which after doing that made the button green in the Hardware drivers window. Then I ran the code in the terminal provided in the above posts, it should be noted that the code runs a script which downloads files, so a wired connection is needed still. After that I could see the wireless networks and had a connection...until I rebooted. So, rinse and repeat, and now it seems to be working fine.
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