I have gone through both mint and ubuntu installations on this 2020 IMAC with my head in my hands for the last 5 days trying to figure out and fuck around with what possibly could be wrong with all of this. It's been a nightmare. thank god its being worked on x-x. Heres my error report, not much different than the rest of ya but it's all I got
tadpole@monkey-thought-translator:~$ sudo apt install firmware-b43-installer Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: b43-fwcutter bzip2 Suggested packages: bzip2-doc The following NEW packages will be installed: b43-fwcutter bzip2 firmware-b43-installer 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 15 not upgraded. Need to get 67.6 kB of archives. After this operation, 238 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 b43-fwcutter amd64 1:019-11build1 [27.3 kB] Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/main amd64 bzip2 amd64 1.0.8-5.1build0.1 [34.5 kB] Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/multiverse amd64 firmware-b43-installer all 1:019-11build1 [5,678 B] Fetched 67.6 kB in 1s (69.5 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously unselected package b43-fwcutter. (Reading database ... 188638 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../b43-fwcutter_1%3a019-11build1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking b43-fwcutter (1:019-11build1) ... Selecting previously unselected package bzip2. Preparing to unpack .../bzip2_1.0.8-5.1build0.1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking bzip2 (1.0.8-5.1build0.1) ... Selecting previously unselected package firmware-b43-installer. Preparing to unpack .../firmware-b43-installer_1%3a019-11build1_all.deb ... Unpacking firmware-b43-installer (1:019-11build1) ... Setting up bzip2 (1.0.8-5.1build0.1) ... Setting up b43-fwcutter (1:019-11build1) ... Setting up firmware-b43-installer (1:019-11build1) ... No chroot environment found. Starting normal installation No supported device found. But firmware is installed unconditionally Unknown device(s) found: PCI id Trying to install latest firmware 6.30.163.46 . --2025-07-16 22:13:23-- https://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-6.30. 163.46.tar.bz2 Resolving www.lwfinger.com (www.lwfinger.com)... 173.254.30.178 Connecting to www.lwfinger.com (www.lwfinger.com)|173.254.30.178|:443... connect ed. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: https://www.lwfinger.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi [following] --2025-07-16 22:13:23-- https://www.lwfinger.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi Reusing existing connection to www.lwfinger.com:443. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/html] Saving to: ‘broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.tar.bz2’ broadcom-wl-6.30.16 [ <=> ] 891 --.-KB/s in 0s 2025-07-16 22:13:24 (129 MB/s) - ‘broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.tar.bz2’ saved [891] broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.tar.bz2: FAILED sha512sum: WARNING: 1 computed checksum did NOT match /var/lib/dpkg/info/firmware-b43-installer.postinst: Downloaded firmware did not match known SHA512 checksum, aborting. dpkg: error processing package firmware-b43-installer (--configure): installed firmware-b43-installer package post-installation script subprocess re turned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for man-db (2.12.0-4build2) ... Errors were encountered while processing: firmware-b43-installer E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Thank you to those on the frontlines trying to sort through all of this -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2116888 Title: firmware-b43-installer fails due to suspended domain To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/b43-fwcutter/+bug/2116888/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
