Ubuntu 12.04 on my HP6325 Laptop

Hi, been a while I know... Life, it gets in the way of blogging ;-)

Installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my home and work PC's. Home no issues, but HP6325 laptop had an issue recognizing the wireless card and installing the correct drivers.

I used the following article to fix the wireless driver issue:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/80260/wireless-card-mac-not-showing-up

Here's an extract of the important bits:

I use the lspci command to display the details about my hardware. It will display all of your PCI connected hardware. I edited the output to show only the relevant information. The important information here for matching your hardware with mine is this indentifier [14e4:4312].

$ sudo lspci -v   
30:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation
BCM4311 802.11a/b/g (rev 01)
      Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN
     Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18
     Memory at c8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
     Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
     Capabilities: [58] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
     Capabilities: [d0] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
     Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
     Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
     Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
     Kernel modules: ssb   

$ sudo lspci -nn 
30:00.0 Network controller [0280]:  Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11a/b/g
[14e4:4312] (rev 01)

The Solution
I am going to install the correct driver for this wireless card. Then I will remove the “incorrect” driver (bcmwl) which Ubuntu installed by default.

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
$ sudo apt-get remove bcmwl-kernel-source
$ sudo reboot