firmware-b43-installer fails to use proxy server
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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b43-fwcutter (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: b43-fwcutter
On our company network we need to use a proxy server (also for dns requests). The firmware-
Problem
user@host:~$sudo apt-get install firmware-
...
Setting up firmware-
--2010-12-01 11:21:55-- http://
Resolving mirror2.
wget: unable to resolve host address `mirror2.
dpkg: error processing firmware-
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 4
Errors were encountered while processing:
firmware-
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Download should work
A wget on that url actually works.
user@host:~$wget http://
Workaround
set up proxychains and call apt-get like this:
user@host:~$sudo proxychains apt-get install firmware-
Extra info
Don't think this is related but we use cntlm runing on localhost to connect/
summary: |
- firmware-b43-installer fails when using proxy + firmware-b43-installer fails to use proxy server |
I'm getting this error on two machines.