Firmware for broadcom cards should be included in restricted-manager
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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restricted-manager (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Although not a restricted driver, I think that the restricted firmware to allow broadcom cards to use bcm43xx drivers should be installable through the restricted driver manager. The reason for this is that many people don't know that broadcom cards have native support and instead think that they need to go through the hassle of using NDIS wrapper to get their broadcom wireless chipset to work in Ubuntu, either that or after seeing how hard it is to get NDIS wrapper working they give up on Ubuntu altogether.
I think that a solution to this problem would be to have retricted-manager detect supported broadcom chipsets and offer to install the package bcm43xx-fwcutter ( and automatically choose to have it download and extract the firmware ).