I had this problem with bcm43xx after upgrading from 7.04 to 7.10 as well. I ran ndiswrapper on 7.04 so, after removing ndiswrapper, and reinstalling ndiswrapper from source with no success. I then spent many frustrating hours trying and failing to get the firmware cutter restricted driver to work until I came back to ndiswrapper and resolved to make it work again.
Directions for ndiswrapper found here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper after this step: depmod -a modprobe ndiswrapper tail /var/log/messages reveals the problem: laptop kernel: [ 16.716000] ndiswrapper: changing interface name from 'wlan0' to 'eth1' Oct 20 12:41:14 laptop kernel: [ 66.416000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready My fix was to edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules I changed ETH1 to WLAN0, saved the changes and rebooted. And now the messages log says: laptop kernel: [ 53.940000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready I am wireless again, I Hope this helps. -- Gusty updates broke my wireless connectivity https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/130511 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
