Dell Inspiron 6400 wifi won't work

[XpRefugee]

Follow up I re-installed 2.6 this time erased xp (I am that comfortable with linux now)
I also set it up with a seprate /home partition. since I could now use the entire drive.
I had the same WiFi issues.
I referred to this old post of mine and realized the old way did not work.

I ended up connecting to Ethernet and running the following commands on my fresh install.
They are different than my previous posts, probably due to the changes in the linux packages, but I am a noob so I really don't know how or why this worked.

I went to for a referance

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2214110

Since i just installed Linux Lite 2.6. I needed to build an index of available packages

Code:

sudo apt-get update

Id'ed my card.

Code:

lspci -nn -d 14e4:

03:02.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 03)

I used the pci.id  [14e4:4320]  with the grid found at (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2214110)

Using the format of
sudo apt-get install <package>

I ran

Code:

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
sudo reboot

When my machine booted the WiFi light blinked then i touched it and I had WiFi.
I am posting both as a reference to myself and hopefully to help others.

I am still not as proficient with linux as I was with xp and other windows os's. But I no longer have any Windows software on this laptop.