b43 driver in Ubuntu (and also Debian)

[Martin Pitt]

Hello Ma,

Ma Xiaojun [2012-11-08 16:17 -0600]:
> The second is about jockey/u-d-commons.
> As I skim through the source code, I haven't seen anything that
> handles b43 installation.

Jockey still had a handler for b43 until maverick. It was dropped in
natty and above, as our linux-firmware package has shipped the
firmware since then:

/lib/firmware/brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw
/lib/firmware/brcm/bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw
/lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43236b.bin

Also, we now use the "wl" driver by default, which works a lot better
(or at all) on the hardware we have test access to.

ubuntu-drivers-common does not have any particular "handlers". If we
still want b43-fwcutter for some reason (perhaps it might extract
different firmware than the one in linux-firmware), it should grow a
Modaliases: package field to say which hardware it should be applied
to. Then u-d-common will pick it up automatically.

Martin
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