[Bug 1293037] Re: Broadcom STA driver installed in live USB, but driver lost after installing Ubuntu in HD

[Brian Murray]

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** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Broadcom STA driver installed in live USB, but driver lost after
  installing Ubuntu in HD

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I downloaded the latest build of ubuntu 14.04, trusty-desktop-amd64. (2014-03-15)
  Ubiquity 2.17.9
  Apt 0.9.15.4ubuntu2

  Booted it from a USB flash drive and installed the Broadcom STA, going
  to "Software & Updates" -> "Additional Drivers".

  It worked great! Then I installed Ubuntu in the hard drive, and the
  installed version did not have the STA drivers.

  I can easily see the proprietary driver is not installed:

  # dmesg | grep b43

  [   10.188127] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4312 WLAN found (core revision 15)
  [   10.240601] b43-phy0: Found PHY: Analog 6, Type 5 (LP), Revision 1
  [   10.267103] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
  [   10.267105] b43 ssb0:0: Falling back to user helper
  [   10.778135] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
  [   10.778141] b43 ssb0:0: Falling back to user helper
  [   10.842392] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
  [   10.842397] b43 ssb0:0: Falling back to user helper
  [   10.844949] b43 ssb0:0: Direct firmware load failed with error -2
  [   10.844955] b43 ssb0:0: Falling back to user helper
  [   10.846782] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode15.fw" not found
  [   10.846840] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode15.fw" not found
  [   10.846876] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.

  And there should be a wl.ko file in the dkms folder.
  /lib/modules/3.13.0-17-generic/updates/dkms/wl.ko

  but there isn't even dkms.

  ok, then I thought, let's just install the driver again, but I can't,
  I need a Ubuntu DVD. APT cannot see a USB flash drive as a CD/DVD, it
  can't easily be added as a repository. (maybe I should open an issue
  to APT too?)

  So I tried the whole procedure 1 more time, and the same thing
  happened, I'm able to reproduce the error.

  I have the skills to install the driver without internet, I only need
  the dkms and bcmwl-kernel-source deb files, but a lot of users can
  struggle with it. Maybe this is not a bug, just a feature request, but
  it would be really helpful.

  Let me know if you need more information.

  Thank you,

  Arthur

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