this tutorial worked for me
NOTE: THIS TUTORIAL WAS MADE USING LINUX UBUNTU 2.6.24 KERNEL. IT HASN’T
BEEN TESTED ON OTHER DISTROS NEITHER OTHER KERNELS. DO IT AT YOUR OWN
RISK.
Steps:
1. Open the terminal
2. type this
sudo apt-get install build-essential
3. copy and paste OR type this (each is a separate line in the terminal)
wget http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2
tar xjf b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2
cd b43-fwcutter-011
make
cd ..
4. then
export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
cd broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod
sudo ../../b43-fwcutter-011/b43-fwcutter -w "/lib/firmware" wl_apsta.o
5. Now reboot Ubuntu and you should be good to go.
Note that you FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR might change with the distro.
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Broadcom B43 wireless doesn't work in 8.04 worked in 7.10
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