Wifi working on my v2310

My laptop has been up and running Ubuntu for the last few days. As I mentioned in the previous post, the only real problem I had was getting my wifi to work consistently. It worked initially, however on rebooting/restarting the system, the laptop had trouble finding the wifi signal at times. I've followed the guide for installing drivers for Broadcom wifi cards, which helped, but rebooting killed wifi at times.
I've downloaded and tested several wifi apps that help me to get connected manually.
The two apps that I'm using now are kwifimanager along with wlassistant. The two of them guarantee wifi connection success, however I have to open them manually to get them to search the wifi signals and then connect to my preselected prefered network.
I have also tried the following programs that also work with various success.
Gtkwifi: great program that worked initially, but on rebooting I found that it wouldn't work on its own and it didn't play nice with the other wifi apps I tried to run along side it. I may give it another try in the future.
wifi-radar: this app may have worked for previous versions of Ubuntu, but the website is dead and I didn't spend much time with this one. It's still on my laptop, so I may play with trying to get it to work in the future.
Wicd: This program shows a lot of promise. To be honest, I found this after I got wlassistant working, so I haven't explored what this program can do or how well it works, but it's on my to-do list of things to try with Ubuntu.
There's also the preinstalled network manager called nm-applet that loads in the panel but it's very limited in what it can do. It also doesnt' seem to be able to find all the wifi networks in my area.
That's a brief summary of configuring my wifi on this laptop. Don't ask me why both of the apps that I'm using are KDE based and I'm running a Gnome desktop environment. I should be using one of the gtk apps but if it works I won't question it.