Beta BCM43xx Wireless Wrinkles...

[Michael R. Head]

Sadly, there's no release file for powerpc.

Also, Dennis K might want to get them to remove his email address from
their web page, since they're apparently using falcon to build the
repository.

On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 18:49 -0500, Ben Woosley wrote:
> As of today, thanks to the Beta, for the first time since using Ubuntu, 
> I'm able to access the web through my bcm4306 wireless card.  I've also 
> seen some promising media improvements.  You can imagine my happiness.
> 
> However to do so I had to jump through a few hoops. Specifically, my 
> card was detected at install-time but wasn't usable post-install.  I had 
> to do the following:
> 
> * Installing network-manager and network-manager-gnome from the repos
> 
> * Installing bcm43xx-firmware_1.0-0ubuntu5_all.deb from 
> http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/dists/dapper-cafuego/bcm43xx/
> 
> * Runnng `gtk-update-icon-cache` as discussed here:
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/37128
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2006-April/017061.html
> http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=155411
> 
> Just a heads-up.  I'm thinking of all the un-savvy people here who won't 
> be able to figure this sort of thing out.
> 
> -Ben
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