I can confirm that this does work :

"Going under package manager, selecting completely remove the
b43-fwcutter package, and then installing it again does fix my wireless."

Looks like it's just the initial setup under System > Administration >
Hardware Drivers that somehow fails to get the firmware properly. Manual
install with Synaptic works fine.

Thanks to everyone posting here helping make Ubuntu better/nicer to use.


On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 10:28 PM, Kevin Oberle <email address hidden>
wrote:

> I can confirm this bug on my laptop under hardy alpha 6. I have the
> bcm4318 card. If i use the restricted hardware manager and enable the
> driver it downloads and installs fine but does not work even after a
> reboot. Going under package manager, selecting completely remove the
> b43-fwcutter package, and then installing it again does fix my wireless.
> This would be consistent with a problem in the installation script or
> restricted driver manager itself.
>
> --
> broadcom wireless not working fresh install of hardy
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197819
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> 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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>