Regarding broadcom drivers

[Sean]

Hi, I'm writing about broadcom drivers that are currently not included in
Ubuntu. I completely understand that they cannot be shipped with the distro
because no word has been sent to you guys allowing the drivers to be added.
I remember reading in a ubuntu devel email that, if you guys were to receive
an email letting the drivers ship with the product, it would be trivial to
have it work out of the box. This got me thinking that, even though you
can't ship it in the box, you might possibly make it so that I could
download a package online from another computer, put it on a usb stick, and
install it so everything will work. The problem is, my computer is only
connected through wireless. When people on discussion boards say to download
certain programs and such, I cannot do that. I'm not connected right away.
Through many different programs, and iwconfig commands (every start up), I
have been able to get the bcm43xx driver to work with my Linksys WMP54G
card, using the bcmwl5 windows driver. I had to use a program called
fwcutter to get it to work. Would it be possible to have you put up a
download which I could get that would get everything working on my computer
without the hassle? Thank you.

Sean
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