Manual removal of the firmware supplied by Hardy's fwcutter package, and
then manual removal of Hardy's fwcutter package itself, followed by manual
installation of the fwcutter package referenced on the site I have listed in
my original post, followed by running that fwcutter package/program, DOES
work.

Again, not complaining or whining, just wondering if some of us with older
Broadcom chips might have to go through these manual steps with anything
beyond Gutsy, when Gutsy automated it all through its Restricted Drivers
Manager. And of course, hoping the Ubuntu devs can include the proper
fwcutter package for our troublesome Broadcom cards in Hardy, if possible.


On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 3:49 AM, der_vegi <email address hidden> wrote:

> And manually installing the firmware did not work either? Hm. What kind
> of chip are you using? Looking at
> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43/ shows, that not all
> broadcom devices are supported. Could you please attach the output of
> 'lspci -vvnn'?
>
> --
> broadcom wireless not working fresh install of hardy
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197819
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Source Package "b43-fwcutter" in Ubuntu: New
> Status in Source Package "jockey" in Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> flick@lil-spooky:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
> DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
> DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
> DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
> DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu hardy (development branch)"
> flick@lil-spooky:~$ uname -a
> Linux lil-spooky 2.6.24-11-generic #1 SMP Fri Feb 29 21:26:31 UTC 2008
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> flick@lil-spooky:~$ apt-cache policy b43-fwcutter
> b43-fwcutter:
>  Installed: 1:008-2
>  Candidate: 1:008-2
>  Version table:
>  *** 1:008-2 0
>        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
>        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> what I expected to happen : after doing a fresh install of Hardy Alpha 5,
> I started the Restricted Driver Manager to install the broadcom firmware to
> get my wireless working, just like I did in Gutsy. I expected the fwcutter
> package to download and install the correct firmware, which is what happened
> under Gutsy. In Gutsy, the little orange light turned blue right away ( my
> machine is an HP dv6000 series laptop ) indicating that wireless is up and
> running.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> what happened instead : started the Restricted Driver manager now called
> "Hardware Drivers" under System-->Administration, clicked the checkbox for
> the Broadcom firmware to be downloaded and installed. The Hardware Driver
> manager told me it had downloaded and installed the firmware, however, the
> orange light did not turn blue. I tried rebooting to see if that would make
> a difference. It did not make a difference. No working wireless. This page :
> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 seems to indicate that
> various kernel versions need not just different versions of the firmware,
> but different versions of the fwcutter program/package itself, as well.
> Would be great if that could be integrated into Hardy before final release.
>
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>