wireless issues with ubuntu on MBP

[kubani1]

hi, so I´ve been interested in using ubuntu for awhile, and i finally went ahead and dual booted ubuntu on my 2011 13in MBP. this eventually went okay, now that i have it installed though, i cannot get wireless to work, it doesnt even seem to recognize that there could be wireless. but it does still work when i boot osX (I´m running 10.7.3 if that is important)

I have tried looking at lots of forums, but so far I´ve just managed to confuse myself.

so I´m looking for help, thanks,

 

[kubani1]

oh yeah, i ran this code
lspci -v

to tell me what wireless card iḿ running and this is the result, i just don´t know what to do now. thanks

03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4331 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 02)
Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. AirPort Extreme
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at a0600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel modules: bcma

 

[lxskllr]

Checkout this forum topic. It doesn't look straight forward...

http://forums.techarena.in/operating-systems/1450935.htm

Found via search...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=BCM4331+ubuntu&t=1

 

[kubani1]

oi, thanks lxsllr, i don't have time to faff about with all that today, but i will give it a go hopefully tomorrow. although it doesn't look so easy, I feel a bit out of my league with this really, i'll just follow the instructions even though I don't know what i'm doing.

next time i have to buy a computer, i would like to go with Ubuntu, but I think that I will have buy a machine without any hardware incompatibilities.