Xubuntu Alternate 9.04 Broadcom b43 firmware not online

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Jaunty Jackalope: xubuntu-9.04-alternate-i386.iso

A dated laptop Pentium 266 (256MB) IBM iSeries model 2611-450 (yenta bridge)
cannot load Broadcom b43 driver firmware (because unavailable ) so networking
initialization phase cannot complete
Looking for override.

Is there Any workaround for adding the firmware on the fly (during the install sequence)?

I should say I was running 8.10 with CardBus PCMCIA b43 HW but I did not install 8.10 with
b43 HW (I added the card later). So when I go to 9.04 it does not seem to support it directly from
within the install sequence framework. It loads the driver but cannot load the firmware.

TIA

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. Is this a duplicate of bug 376259 ?

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!