broadcom wireless

[Miano, Steven M.]

> From: Curtis Vaughan
>
> I have been struggling 2 days now to get a broadcome wireless card to
> work on an HP DV6000 under Ubuntu 8.04. I've found tons of pages with
> people getting it to work. But everything I've tried doesn't work. The
> interesting thing is I went to the Ubuntu Help Wifi Docs and they say
> that the driver is included in 8.04 and that a manual config is not
> required. That it is all controlled through the nm-applet. But I have not
> been able to get the card up at all.
> Any ideas?
> Curtis

I have a BC43 as well, this page might help you out:

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware

It's really a huge pita to be honest, I wish there was an easier way. : (

~Steven

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