!! Installatie Ubuntu on a HP Pavilion G6, pfff....

* __nomodeset__ as extra kernel boot parameter (to prevent black screen during boot)
* mess with wireless driver :
** ''sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer'' fails....

{{{
root@hplaptop:~# lspci -vnn | grep 14e4
01:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
}}}

So, we would need the ''brcmsmac'' driver. And blacklist the ''bcma'' driver.

After a long journey, found out that 11.04 just works out of the box (later releases also dont work properly with the wireless driver)

A second repair action (after my brother "accidently" upgraded his ubuntu) took again many hours, I finally decided to use the latest Mint (13 , "Maya") distribution, and figured out the wireless works after installing the restricted drivers (via the standard Ubuntu configuration menu), and manually blacklisting the following drivers:

My daughter's Lenovo Thinkpad E135 had the same louzy wireless driver, I managed to get that one working by just installing the bcmwl-kernel-source package.

%%small
{{{
blacklist ssb
blacklist brcm80211
blacklist brcmfmac
blacklist brcmsmac
blacklist bcma
blacklist bcm43xx
blacklist b43
blacklist b43legacy
}}}
%%

The list of modules now looks like this:

%%small
{{{
pavilion modprobe.d # lsmod |grep -v snd
Module                  Size  Used by
lib80211_crypt_tkip    17240  0
wl                   2646601  0
lib80211               14040  2 lib80211_crypt_tkip,wl
rfcomm                 38139  0
bnep                   17830  2
bluetooth             158438  10 rfcomm,bnep
parport_pc             32114  0
ppdev                  12849  0
binfmt_misc            17292  1
vesafb                 13516  1
hp_wmi                 13652  0
sparse_keymap          13658  1 hp_wmi
wmi                    18744  1 hp_wmi
uvcvideo               67203  0
joydev                 17393  0
i915                  414568  0
mac_hid                13077  0
psmouse                87140  0
drm_kms_helper         45466  1 i915
serio_raw              13027  0
videodev               86588  1 uvcvideo
drm                   197692  2 i915,drm_kms_helper
rts_pstor             353215  0
mei                    36570  0
i2c_algo_bit           13199  1 i915
video                  19068  1 i915
lp                     17455  0
parport                40930  3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
usbhid                 41906  0
hid                    77367  1 usbhid
r8169                  56321  0 
}}}
%%

!! Resources

* [https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=973365]
* [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_wireless]
* [http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1617380.html]