Comment 15 for bug 202567

I just upgraded from 7.10. The driver's not listed in Hardware Drivers -- in 7.10 it (and my modem) were there, now there's nothing. the interface was not listed under ifconfig.

After upgrading I was getting an error from b43legacy-phy0 in /var/log/syslog telling me to follow the instructions at http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware to update my firmware. this I did, but when I tried to make b43-fwcutter i got a load of compile errors. I installed the b43-fwcutter package, and told it to download & install the drivers. The message in /var/log/syslog persisted. I noticed that it installed firmware version 4; for my chipset it's using the b43legacy module and so (according to linuxwireless.org) needs the version 3 firmware.

I followed the rest of the instructions on the linuxwireless.org site for b43legacy, using the b43-fwcutter installed by the package, restarted networking, and now everything works okay. The driver still doesn't show up in Hardware Drivers; neither does anything else.

so no, i guess it hasn't been fixed, at least not for those who use the b43legacy module