[nzlug] Wireless on Ubuntu Gutsy

[Simon Green]

Hi guys,

I've recently updated my work laptop from Ubuntu Feisty to Gutsy. Went
pretty smoothly. The built in wireless card is based on the broadcom
4312 chip, and I am using ndiswrapper as the bcm43xx module (with
fwcutter) seems not to work for me.

My laptop goes between home and work. Both locations have wireless
Internet using a 128 bit WEP key. Under Feisty, when I got to the new
location, the connection applet in the Gnome toolbar updated the list
of wireless networks. I could select the correct network, and it
connected.

However under Gutsy, the list of wireless networks does not update,
meaning that I need to reboot the machine in order to connect to the
other network.Ideally, I would like to not have to reboot the machine
twice a day!

Has anyone else experienced this, and know of a solution?

  -- simon