jaunty alpha last update broke Broadcom "B43" Free wireless driver

[Mike]

After manually running updates yesterday evening, I lost the ability to connect to my wireless.
It attempts to connect, then prompts me for the network key (which is already correct.) I click Ok and it times out again. Was working flawlessly before this last update. Wired network works fine.

I had the Broadcom "B43" Free wireless driver activated. Switching to the proprietary Broadcom driver resolved the problem; after activating it and rebooting, I notice the "B43" driver is missing from the Hardware Drivers list.

If this is just a matter of the driver being removed from the repos, then maybe notifying the user that "Hey - the driver you had activated has been pulled. Sorry for the inconvenience." or some such heads-up.

[Mike (bild85)]

assigning to update-manager because this seems to be a missing feature

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I close the update-manager task, u-m is just the messenger here.

[rpuchadm (rpuchadm-gmail)]

really fails, because the url http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o from
/usr/share/b43-fwcutter/install_bcm43xx_firmware.sh doesn't work
but alternativelly, you can solve it here
http://www.omattos.com/broadcom/

try

cd /tmp
wget http://www.omattos.com/broadcom/b43-all-fw.tar.gz
tar -xvzf b43-all-fw.tar.gz
sudo cp b43-all-fw/* /lib/firmware/ -Rv

[rpuchadm (rpuchadm-gmail)]

there's a problem I've got
when doing the previous post

at /var/lob/messages

b43-phy0 warning: You are using an old firmware image. Support for old firmware will be removed in July 2008.
b43-phy0 warning: You must go to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the latest firmware (version 4).

any idea?

[Keng-Yu Lin (lexical)]

Unfortunately it seems this bug is still an issue. Can you confirm this issue exists with the most recent Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 release - http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-9.04-desktop . Please let us know your results. Thanks.

[Mike (bild85)]

I have the latest 9.04 installed, and I don't see an option to activate the B43 driver. I look in Hardware Drivers and all I have listed for the wireless is "Broadcom STA Wireless Driver". What exactly do you want confirmed? That the B43 driver doesn't work, or that it was removed from the repos causing loss of connectivity?

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

[This is an automated message. Apologies if it has reached you inappropriately; please just reply to this message indicating so.]