Install restricted drivers for your Broadcomm wireless card in Ubuntu

The following steps can only be followed if the following requirement is met :
* An image/cd of the version of Ubuntu currently installed in your system.


Step 1: Locate the restricted driver
If you are using a cd , then insert the cd and open the '/pool/restricted/b/bcmwl/' directory.

Step 2: Finding the dependencies
Here you will find a package called 'bcmwl-kernel-source'
Double click on the package and note down the all the dependencies of the package.

Step 3: Installing the dependencies
Now go to the '/pool/main/' directory. Here you will find several folders having single letter names(b,d,f,g,l...). These contain the packages starting with the respective letter.
For example if you want to install the package 'fake-root' , then you will have to go to '/pool/main/f/fakeroot/'
Now install all the dependencies one by one.

If you have no clue onto which package to install first and whaich later, there is a simple alternative. Just copy all the packages(finding them by using the above procedure) into a single folder.
Then 'cd' to that directory and execute the following command

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

This will install the packages in that directory, the order of installation of the packages is managed by dpkg.

Step 4: Finishing touches
Now that we have installed all the dependencies, we can now get back to the '/pool/restricted/b/bcmwl/' folder and install the 'bcmwl-kernel-source' package.

Step 5: Reboot
Reboot, now your broadcomm wireless card is up and ready.


*Note : We can also install the alternative windows drivers for your wireless card using Ndiswrapper. But this will require a lot of work and is hectic. I would recommend you to follow this easy and fast procedure.
For people who want to use Ndiswrapper can visit the link
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=185174