8.04 networking seems awfully broken.

[Peter Garrett]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 06:10:02PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2008-07-24, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> > Grant Edwards wrote:
> >
> >> I found recipes in forum postings.  Was the installer supposed
> >> to do something?
> >
> > No.  The "hardware drivers manager" does (jockey-kde in KDE and jockey-gtk
> > in Gnome), _after_ you start your desktop.
> 
> I didn't see anything.  After I noticed that wan0 wasn't
> associating no matter how many times I ran the network-manager,
> I started sifting through the sysmem log and found an error
> message from the bt43 driver saying that it couldn't find a
> firmware file.  After some googling through the forums, I found
> the recipe for download the firmware and the extractor and
> generating the required .fw files.
> 
> > Maybe not 30 - but in my case it did require some time before
> > Jockey told me about the required firmware.
> 
> Maybe I didn't wait long enough, but it probably took me at
> least a hour of looking at system logs and googling before I
> had the firmware files installed.  Nothing popped up during
> that time.

Grant:
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=b43+firmware+how+ubuntu+hardy&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

First hit:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Hardy

Two solutions:

sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter 

or

http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/pool/hardy-cafuego/broadcom/b43-firmware_1.0-0cafuego0_all.deb

I have a Broadcom  bcm 4306 on an iBook G4 - it worked as soon as I 
installed the cafuego package. It's a dual boot - with Debian Sid. On Sid it 
worked as soon as I installed b43-fwcutter, with wpa encryption set 
up in the router/AP and the nm-applet config.

I'm not saying it's obvious, and of course you need a wired connection 
to grab either of the above, but the packages are not really hard to 
find, and you certainly don't need to compile anything.

Peter

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