I can confirm that this does work :
"Going under package manager, selecting completely remove the
b43-fwcutter package, and then installing it again does fix my wireless."
Looks like it's just the initial setup under System > Administration >
Hardware Drivers that somehow fails to get the firmwar
Relevant output of lspci -vvnn :
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan
mini-PCI [14e4:4311] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device [103c:1363]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR+
Manual removal of the firmware supplied by Hardy's fwcutter package, and
then manual removal of Hardy's fwcutter package itself, followed by manual
installation of the fwcutter package referenced on the site I have listed in
my original post, followed by running that fwcutter package/program, DOES
Looks like the firmware version/fwcutter version issues I
mentioned/referenced in my first post.
Dmesg output attached.
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Cory Flick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you for the tips and suggestions, I'll do them tonight when I get
> home from work, and will repl
Thank you for the tips and suggestions, I'll do them tonight when I get home
from work, and will reply again with my results.
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:04 AM, der_vegi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Cory, what i your output of 'dmesg'? This would give an idea, if the
> problem is the driver itself,
For whatever it's worth :
I tried a different approach. I did a clean install of Gutsy, got wireless
working that way, then upgraded to Hardy using update-manager -d.
Upon reboot, wireless does not work. Tried using "Hardware Drivers" under
System-->Administration, it offered to download the fwc
Restricted Manager pops up the "has to install firmware" notice again. I
click ok, it installs/runs fwcutter again, which again does not result in
working wireless. On the web page I referenced in my original bug report,
there's talk of different kernels requiring different fwcutter versions as
wel
