I fired up my Dell Vostro 1000 (Testing) yesterday, the first time in several months, then ran a dist-upgrade. I was expecting the wireless to break since a new kernel and many broadcom* packages were upgrade in the process. It did break, so after figuring out the problem I had the last time I had issues with my wireless and how I resolved them it was up and running without problems.
My wireless card:
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
Earlier this year I already had the required packages install:
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sudo apt-get install module-assistant broadcom-sta-common broadcom-sta-source wireless-tools wpasupplicant
How I fixed the wireless:
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sudo module-assistant prepare broadcom-sta
sudo module-assistant auto-install broadcom-sta
I had to reboot for the wireless light to turn on. Once on, I could toggle it off/on.
When I was initially having trouble with ndiswrapper after a kernel upgrade, I found
this thread and this thread to be very helpful in getting my wireless working again. Pay attention to what may need blacklisting.