Broadcom wireless drivers... bcm43

[NoOp]

On 03/22/2010 03:38 PM, Steve Flynn wrote:
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> On 22/03/10 21:16, Fred Roller wrote:
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>> I'm now at a bit of a loss to start troubleshooting this as I used the
>> same drivers in Karmic with no problems and I was initially using Lucid
>> with these same drivers without any problems. I'm not sure when the
>> issue actually occurred so I can't easily bisect what's been installed
>> to track down what the where the issue actually is. This makes reporting
>> a lucid bug problematical... maybe when kernel 2.6.32-16-generic was
>> installed or maybe not!
>> 
>> Any suggestions for a way forwards?
>> 
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>> When you look at
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>>     System --> Administration --> Hardware Drivers
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>> do have a "Broadcom STA wireless driver" option /and/ "Broadcom B43 
>> wireless driver" option.  If so which is active?  Since you mentioned 
>> fwcutter, I will assume the latter.  Try disabling the B43 and 
>> activating the STA, if it's an option.  From the listing there:
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> Afraid not - only one option available, "Broadcom B43 wireless driver"
> (sadly no version number) with a description of "fwcutter is a tool
> which can extract firmware from various source files.It's written for
> BCM43xx driver files."
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> It's currently activated and in use.
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> lspci tells me
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> 00:0c.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g
> Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
> 
> If I switch over to wireless connection, it finds my AP, connects,
> authenticates and it does actually work, but under this current kernel,
> its flaky.

You might try:
<https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=b43+%2Blucid&field.actions.search=Search>
<https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text=BCM4306+%2Blucid&field.actions.search=Search>
<https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/b43-fwcutter>
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/b43-fwcutter>
to see if you can spot anything.