ubuntu 10.10 wireless driver problem

Bug #669974 reported by laurens
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Bug Description

with ubuntu 10.04 i downloaded the broadcom STA wireless drver from the aditional drivers menu without a problem,but whe i try it obn 10.10 it seas:

Sorry, installation of this driver failed.

Please have a look at the log file for details: /var/log/jockey.log

i looked in the log file and at the bottom it seas:

2010-11-02 17:17:25,207 WARNING: /sys/module/wl/drivers does not exist, cannot rebind wl driver
2010-11-02 17:17:25,246 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled, bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: blacklisted, b43legacy: blacklisted

i tryed to make the folder by by becoming super-admin (can modify all system folders) and when i tryed to make the folder in module because it indeed di not egsist it seas no such file or directery!
sorry for the bad english but pleae help!
i use a 802.11b/g wireless thingon an asus f5r laptop,thats all i know that chud be helpfull...

Tags: broadcom
Gary Poster (gary)
Changed in launchpad:
status: New → Invalid
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laurens (laurens-weyn) wrote :

help!...
at least give me a link to the driver,something!!!

laurens (laurens-weyn)
tags: added: 10.10 ubuntu
tags: added: broadcom
removed: 10.10 ubuntu
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
affects: launchpad → null
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Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi) wrote :

Hello laurens
Can you please run in a terminal
sudo apt-get clean
then reinstall again the driver ?
Thanks
Fabio

Changed in ubuntu:
status: New → Incomplete
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laurens (laurens-weyn) wrote :

just did,nothing happend. asked for password,I typed it in and pressed enter, a few seconds later gave me that
"laurens@laurens-laptop$ " thing.tried installing the driver again and got the same error.i haven't yoused Ubuntu 10.10 for anything, i simply boot onto 10.04.maby the Ubuntu installer worked incorrectly?i downloaded it and when i first tryed to install it off my memory stick it got stuck,restarted ,reformatted the partition and it completed the install.chud have still been some hiden error...

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for Ubuntu because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in ubuntu:
status: Incomplete → Expired
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
no longer affects: null
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