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Comment 5 for bug 219775

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Jag Dragon (jagdragon-deactivatedaccount) wrote : Re: Broadcom B43 wireless doesn't work in 8.04 worked in 7.10

I did almost exactly what was written above, but used Ubuntu packages rather than downloading the source code for fwcutter and compiling that. Here is what I did:

- Open a new terminal
- sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
- wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
- tar -xjf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
- cd broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod
- sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta.o
- Close the terminal and reboot

This tutorial (or something like it) was found at http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 .
NOTE: This driver will only work on Linux kernel 2.6.24 or older. To find out what kernel version you have, type `uname -r` into a terminal. As of the time of writing, Hardy Heron (8.04) uses 2.6.24, so unless you have manually installed a newer kernel, the above tutorial will work for you.

Enjoy your wireless!