not able to use my Broadcom wireless on my Dell Latitude. Driver activation failes.

[M L Dembi]

Binary package hint: gnome-nettool

Broadcom B43lagacy wireless driver fails activation of driver

This package installs the firmware needed for usage of the b43legacy kerneldriver.

Supported chipsets:- BCM4301- BCM4303- BCM4306/2

failure reporting

SystemError: installArchives() failed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: gnome-nettool 2.31.6-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 21 21:41:09 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-nettool
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-nettool

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

assigned to firmware-b43legacy-installer

[penalvch (penalvch)]

M L Dembi, thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Maverick reached EOL on April 10, 2012.
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