b43xx wireless driver not packaged in release

[Timotheus]

in ubuntu 15.10 and lubuntu 15.10

i have a b4318 wireless chipset which does not work out of the box, even though the b43-fwcutter package is included in the release, the firmware-b43-installer and the legacy package are not included, which from my understanding are needed by b43-fwcutter to actualy install the correct firmware.

the result is an error while booting up saying couldnt load kernel module or something, telling you to go to a website (wireless.kernel or something similar) and download the correct driver for your firmware, which is misleading, as all you need is the firmware-b43-installer or legacy package to make the wireless work.

Including this in the official releases would be great, and/or changing the error message to suggest installing those packages

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[Seth Forshee (sforshee)]

I'm going to redirect this at the firmware-b43-installer package iteslf, as this really has nothing to do with the linux-firmware package.

I will point out however that this package is in multiverse, and as long as that is the case it is impossible to include it in the installation images.