ubuntu 10.04 and b43-fwcutter

[Tom H]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
> Tom H wrote:
>> 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".
>>
> Tom,
> Thanks for the reply. I had this done already and, as I have a directory
> /lib/firmware it placed it there.
> However, the instructions don't say what to do next.
> I have a directory with 26 files, all with the extension .fw but I have
> no idea how to actually install them as I assume that only after
> installing them I get an entry in the device table e.g. wlan0. As long
> as I don't get this I don't have a device to use with iwconfig.

Maybe you're just missing a "modprobe b43legacy". If yes, for
persistence, you'll have to add b43legacy to "/etc/modules".

ANyone else using b43/b43legacy? Is it supposed to be this long-winded
a process?!