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, or a problem of not loading the firmware. > > A second aproach would be to do the steps, the install script shoud do, > manually (steps extracted from > /usr/share/b43-fwcutter/install_bcm43xx_firmware.sh): > go to some temporary directory, for example ~/b43-temp and perform the > following steps: > > cd ~ > mkdir b43-temp > cd b43-temp > wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o > wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 > sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o > tar xfvj broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 > sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta.o > sudo chmod o+rx /lib/firmware/b43 /lib/firmware/b43legacy > > Again, output of 'dmesg' would be helpful... Good luck! > > -- > broadcom wireless not working fresh install of hardy > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197819 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in Source Package "b43-fwcutter" in Ubuntu: New > Status in Source Package "jockey" in Ubuntu: New > > Bug description: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release > DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu > DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04 > DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy > DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)" > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a > Linux lil-spooky 2.6.24-11-generic #1 SMP Fri Feb 29 21:26:31 UTC 2008 > x86_64 GNU/Linux > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy b43-fwcutter > b43-fwcutter: > Installed: 1:008-2 > Candidate: 1:008-2 > Version table: > *** 1:008-2 0 > 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > what I expected to happen : after doing a fresh install of Hardy Alpha 5, > I started the Restricted Driver Manager to install the broadcom firmware to > get my wireless working, just like I did in Gutsy. I expected the fwcutter > package to download and install the correct firmware, which is what happened > under Gutsy. In Gutsy, the little orange light turned blue right away ( my > machine is an HP dv6000 series laptop ) indicating that wireless is up and > running. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > what happened instead : started the Restricted Driver manager now called > "Hardware Drivers" under System-->Administration, clicked the checkbox for > the Broadcom firmware to be downloaded and installed. The Hardware Driver > manager told me it had downloaded and installed the firmware, however, the > orange light did not turn blue. I tried rebooting to see if that would make > a difference. It did not make a difference. No working wireless. This page : > http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 seems to indicate that > various kernel versions need not just different versions of the firmware, > but different versions of the fwcutter program/package itself, as well. > Would be great if that could be integrated into Hardy before final release. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- broadcom wireless not working fresh install of hardy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197819 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
