Regarding broadcom drivers

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 05:29:12PM -0500, Sean wrote:
> 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.

This program exists in Ubuntu as the bcm43xx-fwcutter package; that
package also comes with a script that does the downloading for you.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]