wireless card

Help! I am a new linux user and to be honest I am about ready to throw in the towel. i have tried everything i could think of to install my wireless card and cannot get it to work.

Specs: HP Compaq nx6325
64 bit. Was windows XP. no Zorin.

Anyway can someone please explain to me what i am doing wrong? I have tried terminal commands. i have tried installin the ndiswrapper i have found my chipset and tried installing in a terminal.

Before on xp the wireless card worked fine. Now, Zorin does not even pick it up, apparently it's non existent. Help!

Can you please open terminal an post back here the results of the following commands:

lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
sudo lshw -c network

Hello Madvinegar,

this is what i got:

alep495@alep495-HP-Compaq-nx6325-RB545UT-ABA:~$ lspci -nnk/grep -iA2 net sudo lshw -c network
lspci: invalid option -- '/'
Usage: lspci [<switches>]

Basic display modes:
-mm Produce machine-readable output (single -m for an obsolete format)
-t Show bus tree

Display options:
-v Be verbose (-vv for very verbose)
-k Show kernel drivers handling each device
-x Show hex-dump of the standard part of the config space
-xxx Show hex-dump of the whole config space (dangerous; root only)
-xxxx Show hex-dump of the 4096-byte extended config space (root only)
-b Bus-centric view (addresses and IRQ's as seen by the bus)
-D Always show domain numbers

Resolving of device ID's to names:
-n Show numeric ID's
-nn Show both textual and numeric ID's (names & numbers)
-q Query the PCI ID database for unknown ID's via DNS
-qq As above, but re-query locally cached entries
-Q Query the PCI ID database for all ID's via DNS

Selection of devices:
-s [[[[<domain>]:]<bus>]:][<slot>][.[<func>]] Show only devices in selected slots
-d [<vendor>]:[<device>] Show only devices with specified ID's

Other options:
-i <file> Use specified ID database instead of /usr/share/misc/pci.ids.gz
-p <file> Look up kernel modules in a given file instead of default modules.pcimap
-M Enable `bus mapping' mode (dangerous; root only)

PCI access options:
-A <method> Use the specified PCI access method (see `-A help' for a list)
-O <par>=<val> Set PCI access parameter (see `-O help' for a list)
-G Enable PCI access debugging
-H <mode> Use direct hardware access (<mode> = 1 or 2)
-F <file> Read PCI configuration dump from a given file
alep495@alep495-HP-Compaq-nx6325-RB545UT-ABA:~$

The commands I gave you are two separate commands.
You will have to post each one of them separately and post back here the results.

Also you have made a mistake in the first command. The symbol is "|" not "/". Better copy/paste them so as not to make any mistake.

Hello again,

so here is the first one:alep495@alep495-HP-Compaq-nx6325-RB545UT-ABA:~$ lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
02:01.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:169c] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:30b0]
Kernel driver in use: tg3
--
30:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4312] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Broadcom 802.11a/b/g WLAN [103c:1360]
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
alep495@alep495-HP-Compaq-nx6325-RB545UT-ABA:~$

here is for the second one: on the first try i typed in my password wrong! Anyway here it is:
alep495@alep495-HP-Compaq-nx6325-RB545UT-ABA:~$ sudo lshw -c network
[sudo] password for alep495:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo] password for alep495:
*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM4311 802.11a/b/g
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:30:00.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0
resources: irq:18 memory:c8000000-c8003fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 1
bus info: pci@0000:02:01.0
logical name: eth0
version: 03
serial: 00:17:08:4b:85:d4
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=tg3 driverversion=3.134 duplex=full firmware=5788-v3.26 ip=192.168.1.65 latency=64 link=yes mingnt=64 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:23 memory:d4000000-d400ffff
alep495@alep495-HP-Compaq-nx6325-RB545UT-ABA:~$

PS: Thanks for your help!

Try this.

Plug an ethernet cable to get internet and run the following commands one after the other, pressing <enter> after each one.

sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo modprobe -r b43
sudo modprobe -r wl
sudo modprobe wl

Wait 5-6 seconds and see if your wireless can pick up wireless networks.