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urgent ... please help ubuntu is hosed..

help... ubuntu won't recognize my nic card or connect to the internet.  its supposed to be a wifi card but it won't recognize wifi either.  

all I have is ' edit connections' and that is no help.

I need to make this hardware work.  what can I do?
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I opened terminal and ran nm-tool

says:  etho: unavailable
           wifi: unavailable

There is a wifi router right next to me and and I'm also wired into it.  WTF??!!

How can I force this to work?
sweeffa2...  The first thing It says is to run:  sudo apt-get  

That requires an internet connection and I that's not working.
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If you have your Ubuntu CD, run it as a 'Linux Live' (no install) and see if it connects thru your NIC.
sweetfa2,  Yes,  I am on a different computer to post this message.  Sitting next to me is the problem ubutnu machine.  Just downloaded:  ndiswrapper-common_1.50-1ubuntu1_all.deb and moved it over onto a thumb drive.   How do I install the package onto the ubuntu machine?   beginner here step-by-step please.
       
Dave, If I run UbuntuCD as 'Linux Live' it does not detect my my wireless NIC.

Thanks, I hope I can work through it....
Follow the link on how to install in my previous post.
Ok,  I still cannot get a wifi signal.  On the wifi menu at the top of the screen it still says under wireless networks:  device not ready (firmware missing)

Here's what I did:    I installed packages:
For 11.04 Natty Narwhal:
     http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/misc/ndiswrapper-common
     http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/misc/ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
     http://packages.ubuntu.com/natty/net/ndisgtk
       
Then I did
  echo -e "blacklist bcm43xx\nblacklist b43\nblacklist b43legacy\nblacklist ssb" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

But still no joy... :(  Am I on the right path?  What next?
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Ok... Here is the output to my lspci commands.
lspci.txt
Ok...  I think we're talking about this number in column 3 of lspci -n:   "14e4:4320"

Which is in section 3.2.1. PCI Wireless Adapter of sweetfa2's link.  

Then I went to Admin > Wireless network Drivers.  And it wants an inf file.

I'm struggling with the next part because it wants a  windows 'inf' file and I don't have any windows CDs or windows on that machine.  Which is why I've gone to ubuntu.

Can I download this inf somewhere?