ubuntu 10.04 and b43-fwcutter

[NoOp]

On 09/25/2010 08:07 AM, Joep L. Blom 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.
> Joep
> 

Probably obvious, but have you tried 'System|Administration|Hardware
Drivers'?

$ apt-cache search broadcom
bcmwl-kernel-source - Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA wireless driver source
b43-fwcutter - Utility for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware
bcmwl-modaliases - Modaliases for the Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA driver
bcm5700-source - module source for Broadcom's bcm5700 ethernet driver
broadcom-sta-common - Common files for the Broadcom STA Wireless driver
broadcom-sta-source - Source for the Broadcom STA Wireless driver

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/b43-fwcutter
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/b43-fwcutter