8.04 networking seems awfully broken.

[NoOp]

On 07/24/2008 11:10 AM, 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.

Jockey should have found it, but do this from a terminal:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall jockey-gtk
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter

That will go out and get the firmware and drivers for you, see:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/b43-fwcutter
additional info here:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
and for jockey:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy-updates/admin/jockey-gtk
[there have been issues with jocky not getting/identifying b43:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jockey/+bugs but installing
b43-fwcutter should resolve the problem]