Wireless controller does not work in karmic - Dell Mini 9 - Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01)

[komputes]

Binary package hint: b43-fwcutter

The following hardware is recognized, taken in charge by jockey-gtk, but even with the driver installed (and yes, i rebooted) there are no access points showing in network manager.

03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
 Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
 Kernel modules: ssb

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 37b6e744530b0903e91adb26018991f0
CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
Date: Wed Oct 7 16:36:04 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: b43-fwcutter 1:012-1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: b43-fwcutter
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic i686
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:5343): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:5343): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (nautilus:5374): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:5379): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (gnome-panel:5373): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_x11_colormap_foreign_new: assertion `GDK_IS_VISUAL (visual)' failed

[Shang Wu (shangwu)]

Try to install "bcmwl-kernel-source"

[komputes (komputes)]

bcmwl-kernel-source seems to already be installed.

[Javier Acuña Ditzel (santoposmoderno)]

Look here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcm43xx-fwcutter/+bug/379052/comments/8
It worked for me.

[komputes (komputes)]

This seems to have fixed itself (perhaps through an update).