I KNOW issues with these cards have been done to death but I can't seem to find this specific problem anywhere and I'm wondering if someone has a suggestion. I'm running a Dell D630 with Broadcom BCM4311 (rev. 14e3:4312) wireless card. I've installed the bcmwl-kernel-source driver from an Ubuntu 12.04 livecd since I have no possibility to get on the internet with this machine without wi-fi. The driver appears in the "additional drivers" menu fine and says 'activated and in use', but any trace of wi-fi has completely dissapeared from Network Manager. ifconfig only reports eth0 and lo - I can find no sign of any wi-fi interface (wlan*, etc...) existing at all.
I've installed the driver according to these instructions and loaded the prerequisites (dkms, patch, patchutils, faleroot) properly beforehand.
The only indication that the computer has wi-fi at all is from rfkill, which gives me:
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0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
ANY input into how to solve this is appreciated! I've been hashing away at this thing for days with no luck. For a variety of reasons I can't connect this machine to a wired network so I need wi-fi before I can get on the internet at all.
Thanks!