8.04 networking seems awfully broken.

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-07-24, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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

I had no working network connection.

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