Dell Inspiron 1720 - Ubuntu 7.10 -Broadcom 43xx - will not work

Dell Inspiron 1720 - Ubuntu 7.10 -Broadcom 43xx - will not work Helllo, After losing a battle on the weekend my Ubuntu drive was lost for various reasons, and I was unable to recover the install So I went through the trouble of reinstalling Ubuntu Studio 7.10, as this has worked well in the past from 7.4 to 7.10. I just after the reinstall had massive issues, no sound at all, no video card, no wireless. The sound was odd as this had worked in all the installs before. Dell Inspiron 1720. So I installed all the updates, changed sources, updated more. Did a manual install of Asla, and the Nivida drivers which failed a few times before I got it working. Once I solved that I quickly checked this form for my old method of getting the wireless card working, I did the quick way install that never worked. Issues: 1. Sometimes my wireless card appears in networking, somtimes I only see see "wired" Running "sudo modprobe bcm43xx" will make it appear for only that session 2. I can get the card up and running for say, I can see wireless networks, but nothing will connect even my open test one. 3. I did try to remove the installed options from the quick way and use the firmware in Restricted drivers, again that never worked either I went through https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi.../bcm43xx/Gutsy ; that didn't work I have reformatted and encounter the same error, at one point before I had lost the oringal system my wireless card in Ubuntu was working, also now my audio card is giving me a tough time too.