Does anyone know how exactly to get the driver installed for this and give a step by step guide? Everything I've tried so far goes to a dead end.

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The device only works with ndiswrapper. With a temporary working interet connection by ethernet or any other means, open a terminal and do:

sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9

Download the driver file to your desktop here: Right-click it and select 'Extract Here.'

Find out if you need the 32- or 64-bit files:

arch

64-bit returns x86_64. If yours is a 64-bit system, you will need to make an edit to the driver file. Open "bcmwlhigh5.inf" in gedit or any text editor and add this line, around line 170:

[Linksys_AE2500.files.NTamd64] AE2500xp64.sys,,,6

Proofread carefully, save and close the text editor. Now do:

cd ~/Desktop/xp
sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwlhigh5.inf
sudo ndiswrapper -ma
sudo depmod -a

Reboot. If the wireless is not working, see if you can see any problems:

ndiswrapper -l

That's a lower-case L for 'list,' not the number 1. Also:

dmesg | grep ndis

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sudo apt-get purge bcmwl-kernel-source

then run

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer b43-fwcutter

Remove from blacklist if found.

check the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

if it contains an entry for bcm4* then put # to comment it or remove the whole line.

also notice if there is a file called bcm4* under the directory /etc/modprobe.d/ then remove it.

Now run the command:

sudo modprobe -r b43
sudo modprobe b43
sudo rfkill unblock all

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