ubuntu 10.04 and b43-fwcutter

[Joep L. Blom]

Tom H wrote:
> 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.
> 
Tom,
Thanks for all the help. The problem is that in the logs no errors were 
seen and the wicd log was empty. I assume that network manager is active 
(as wicd will not run). Iwconfig shows now the wlan0 and wifi radar 
shows all access-points in the vicinity. and as I wrote in another mail 
I had mistakenly chosen b43legacy instead of b43.
Thanks again for the support.
Joep