ubuntu 10.04 and b43-fwcutter

[Tom H]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 1:17 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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

All the cli stuff that he has done must have done the job of
'System|Administration|Hardware Drivers' but who knows...

To the OP: please check your logs to see whether the firmware is
loading at boot.

If it is and you haven't added b43legacy to "/etc/modules" and it's
not loaded, load it with "modprobe b43legacy" and check whether your
wireless nic is available.