(Karmic) Hardware Drivers not detect my hardware until I install some packages

Bug #458520 reported by Mike_IronFist
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #439530: Update apt cache if it is not present. Edit Remove
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Nominated for Karmic by Mike_IronFist

Bug Description

This bug is SEVERE and makes life extremely difficult for laptop users. After a fresh install of the Karmic Release Candidate, I found that wireless did not work "out of the box" like it did in Jaunty. I figured I'd be able to install the wireless drivers via the install CD, but no dice there, because hardware drivers did NOT show anything at all for installing drivers - it merely said "No proprietary drivers are in use on this system" and it didn't offer any drivers at all to install.

So I plugged in an ethernet cable, used my internet connection to install bcmwl-kernel-source, and I reinstalled bcmwl-modaliases. After doing that and opening hardware drivers, my wireless hardware and my NVIDIA graphics card were both detected. (and the Broadcom STA wireless driver was listed as installed)

I hope that the team will fix this problem and make wireless work out of the box like it did in Jaunty and Intrepid.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 22 16:08:01 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release Candidate amd64 (20091020.3)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard Compaq Presario CQ50 Notebook PC
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia
Package: jockey-gtk 0.5.5-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=43067e23-d211-49f0-b092-d9e83089d951 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: jockey
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 02/17/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.35
dmi.board.name: 360A
dmi.board.vendor: Wistron
dmi.board.version: 08.49
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Wistron
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.35:bd02/17/2009:svnHewlett-Packard:pnCompaqPresarioCQ50NotebookPC:pvrF.35:rvnWistron:rn360A:rvr08.49:cvnWistron:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Compaq Presario CQ50 Notebook PC
dmi.product.version: F.35
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

Revision history for this message
Mike_IronFist (fistx) wrote :
affects: ubuntu → jockey (Ubuntu)
dulfe (daniel-ulfe)
affects: jockey → zym
affects: zym → chocobo-riding
affects: chocobo-riding → jockey
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