Libertas Firmware package is missing from repositories

[Luis Alvarado]

http://askubuntu.com/questions/315004/how-to-install-libertas-firmware

I was teaching a course on Ubuntu and one of my students had a wireless G card (Encore) that uses the Libertas firmware drivers. When trying to install it, it gave an error as mentioned in the link above. The case was that the package is actually not available on the repositories.

It would be very positive if before the next weekend the package is available on the repositories since this is the next time I will see them and this way I can show them the speed at which Ubuntu develops, solves bugs and in general pays attention to end users.

The package in question is: http://packages.debian.org/squeeze-backports/firmware-libertas

This is for Ubuntu 13.04 in 32 or 64 bit. Have not tested any other version.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thanks for taking your time to report this issue and help making Ubuntu better.

When attempting to install the package on Ubuntu Saucy I get the following error message too:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libertas-firmware : Depends: firmware-libertas but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Looking at http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/libertas-firmware, it looks like the firmware-libertas is not available in Ubuntu at all, but I am not sure why that would be.

[Luis Alvarado (luisalvarado)]

Thanks Hans. Yes, the meta package is there but the actual firmware drivers are not.

[Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)]

http://www.bartvermijlen.com/4-reasons-why-you-should-stop-using-the-word-asap/