Problems configuring bcm43xx-fwcutter

[Ed Smits]

This used to work, but decided to rebuild my laptop today. Installing
bcm43xx-fwcutter I get asked to download the firmware, I say OK, then
it errors out on downloading the drivers as below. From googling
around about this it seems that the googlepages site has download
limits that may have been exceeded or some such. I've tried other
approaches - using my XP drivers etc, nothing seems to work.

1) since fwcutter is a legitimate Ubuntu provided program, why does it
call up drivers from an untrustworthy source.

2) does anyone have an idea as to why this happened and when it might
work once again?

I can wait a few days to get my WiFi working once again (BCM4310 in an
Inspiron 1501), don't want to go the ndiswrapper route - it worked
last time but took forever to connect and seemed to not be as robust
as using fwcutter

Thanks

ED


edgars at banjo:~$ sudo aptitude install bcm43xx-fwcutter
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bcm43xx-fwcutter
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 25.6kB of archives. After unpacking 119kB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe bcm43xx-fwcutter
1:006-1 [25.6kB]
Fetched 25.6kB in 0s (62.9kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package bcm43xx-fwcutter.
(Reading database ... 125576 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking bcm43xx-fwcutter (from .../bcm43xx-fwcutter_1%3a006-1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up bcm43xx-fwcutter (006-1) ...
--15:00:18--  http://boredklink.googlepages.com/wl_apsta.o
           => `wl_apsta.o'
Resolving boredklink.googlepages.com... 72.14.203.118
Connecting to boredklink.googlepages.com|72.14.203.118|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
15:00:19 ERROR 404: Not Found.

dpkg: error processing bcm43xx-fwcutter (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 bcm43xx-fwcutter
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up bcm43xx-fwcutter (006-1) ...
--15:00:20--  http://boredklink.googlepages.com/wl_apsta.o
           => `wl_apsta.o'
Resolving boredklink.googlepages.com... 72.14.203.118
Connecting to boredklink.googlepages.com|72.14.203.118|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
15:00:20 ERROR 404: Not Found.

dpkg: error processing bcm43xx-fwcutter (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 bcm43xx-fwcutter
edgars at banjo:~$