Open up the terminal and type in


lspci

Please post the reply from the terminal

This is what I get from the terminal. Now today as soon as I logged
onto Ubuntu the wireless was up and running and I didn't have to do
anything to it. Makes me afraid to shut it down things are going so
well for a change.

You have 2 wireless cards : a BCM4306 and a BCM4318.
Wich one are you using ??? Are both cards actives ? Is the correct
driver loaded and associate with the correct NIC ? Could you show
output of 'iwconfig' and 'lsmod' ?

I'm writing this reply while connected to internet with a linksys
wireless-g card (version 03) wich is a BCM4318 chipset too. I have
used fwcutter to create a driver wich works at 11MBS. If you use the
windows driver with ndiswrapper you will get 54MBS. But I have not
succeeded installation with ndiswrapper yet ... I would prefer to
have 54 KBS since I'm connected with a fast internet connexion. I know
it's not "open source" ... but I'm only being practical : I want to
get all the speed I paid for the NIC... And it does matter for backups...

I can assure you that the connexion is perfectly stable and reliable.

To setup a driver with fwcutter I have followed instructions at the
following link:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=185174

(Instructions are for edgy but are still OK with fiesty)

some usefull information also at :

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Feisty

The only problem I had is that if you install the bcm43xx-fwcutter
package it doesn't install correctly and complains about a file it
doesn't find on a web site... I have deleted the package and
installed from the tarball and it stopped apt-get from complaining
about the unfinished installation ... Since it's a one time shot, I
don't really care about the package not being kept up to date with
apt-get. Be sure you have the correct driver (WK2000 or XP) on your
Desktop and follow instructions.

That is how it is supposed to work Heather on ubo and win. Luckily it
does not mine.