Broadcom B43 wireless driver fails to activate/install
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
b43-fwcutter (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
jockey (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
The install just fails and asks me to check /var/log/
Reinstalled b43-fwcutter, with no difference.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: jockey-gtk 0.5.9-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-14-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 4 16:30:17 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100803.1)
Lsusb:
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:0750 Microsoft Corp.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude D505
PackageArchitec
PccardctlIdent:
Socket 0:
no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
Socket 0:
no card
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: jockey
dmi.bios.date: 11/03/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A11
dmi.board.name: 0H2049
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.
dmi.product.name: Latitude D505
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
This appears a couple times in dmesg: ucode5. fw" not found wireless. kernel. org/en/ users/Drivers/ b43#devicefirmw are and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.
[ 15.373341] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found
[ 15.373348] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/
[ 15.373353] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://
Went to the website and reinstalled b43-fwcutter, but it didn't solve the problem.