Well, at least I am getting somewhere with this...

So I got directed to this site:
//help.lockergnome.com/linux/Bu...ict508628.html

which detailed my problem. I went through the steps I...

New to BT, new to linux = bad combo.

laptop has broadcom netlink bcm57780 etherlink pci controller built in. (confirmed using lspci).

ifconfig shows no eth0 or eth1. I tried...