ubuntu 10.04 and b43-fwcutter

[Tom H]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
> I have a big problem with lucid.
> I have an older laptop ( > 6 year old) and I have installed Lucid on it.
> It's a 64-bit AMD 3000 with 512 MB.
> The problem is in the wireless card. It is build woth the Broadcom B4306
>  (rev 03). On the site >
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#fw-b43legacy
> a description for installing in Lucid says simply download b43-fwcutter
> and install, that is all there is. No deal. If you download and installs
> it nothing happens and the b43legacy module is not installed. Even
> worse. I can find the module:
> /lib/modules/2.6.32-22-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/b43legacy.ko
> but a modprobe with this module tells me it cannot be found.
> I'm wrestling with it for several days and now I hope somebody can write
> the magic words to solve this problem for me.

Reading the instructions that you posted, I suspect that installing
b43-fwcutter isn't enough and that you still have to go through these
instructions:

<begin>
If you are using the b43legacy driver, follow these instructions.

Install b43-fwcutter, then use version 3.130.20.0 of Broadcom's
proprietary driver.
Download and extract the firmware from this driver:

export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
sudo ./b43-fwcutter-013/b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR"
wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
</end>

where

1. "/lib/firmware//2.6.32-22-generic/" is most probably your
"FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" rather than "/lib/firmware".

2. "sudo ./b43-fwcutter-013/b43-fwcutter" should probably be "sudo
b43-fwcutter" or possibly "sudo /usr/bin/b43-fwcutter".