[ubuntu-in] wireless in Hardy

[shirish]

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>  Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 12:02:12 +0530
>  From: Lut4rp <lut4rp at techjugaad.com>
>  Subject: Re: [ubuntu-in] wireless in Hardy
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>  I had the same problem on my HP Pavilion tx1000, and I found a
>  solution to it. I was upgrading from Gutsy to Hardy, and I am not sure
>  if this problem persists in a fresh Hardy install as well.
>
>  - In /cdrom/pool/main/b you can find the deb for b43-fwcutter
>  - Copy it to your disk and then run it.
>  - It should ask "Do I search for the driver myself?". Say no there.
>  - You should recieve a prompt asking for the .o file of the driver.
>  - get it from http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
>  (use XP :)
>  - that should make your wireless run (at least it worked for me)
>
>  If this doesn't work out, follow instructions from the start from
>  http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
>
>  Cheers
>  Pratul
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Hi all,
 I had gone to a friend's place. He has a Broadcom wireless chipset.
Don't remember the exact chipset but can send the lspci -v sometime on
the list. Anyways here's the thing.

[quote]

I had the same problem on my HP Pavilion tx1000, and I found a
solution to it. I was upgrading from Gutsy to Hardy, and I am not sure
if this problem persists in a fresh Hardy install as well.

- In /cdrom/pool/main/b you can find the deb for b43-fwcutter
- Copy it to your disk and then run it.
- It should ask "Do I search for the driver myself?". Say no there.
- You should recieve a prompt asking for the .o file of the driver.
- get it from http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
(use XP :)
- that should make your wireless run (at least it worked for me)

If this doesn't work out, follow instructions from the start from
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

[/quote]

Now was able to download the file wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o but still it
asked me, how to tell the .deb file that the file is already in the
same directory? Let's say both the drivers the b43-fwcutter as well as
wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o are in the directory /home/shirish/b43-fwcutter/
directory, what should I be doing next?

What it also means that when one runs the .deb file the statements in
the terminal are cryptic, it doesn't tell you what you need to do
after you have downloaded the file.

Looking forward for answers.
-- 
 Regards,
 Shirish Agarwal
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