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Jim Rorie (jfrorie) wrote : Unable to activate Broadcom b43 and STA drivers

Karmic Beta, Macbook Pro 5,1, Linux medusa 2.6.31-11-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 2 11:06:40 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

When attempting to activate b43 driver, jockey disables input, acting as if it is busy. It never responds. When activating STA, jockey immediately returns, but the STA entry isn't marked as highlighted. lsmod shows b43 as loaded, but I have no wireless functions in net-man:

jfrorie@medusa:~$ lsmod | grep b43
b43 136552 0
ssb 40944 1 b43
mac80211 210104 1 b43
cfg80211 109144 2 b43,mac80211
led_class 5256 2 b43,applesmc

Attempting to load bcwml-kernel-source failed due the package not existing.

jfrorie@medusa:~$ sudo apt-get --reinstall install bcwml-kernel-source
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package bcwml-kernel-source

Possible duplicate of:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jockey/+bug/428428
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jockey/+bug/440294
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/289360

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct 5 09:57:32 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/jockey-gtk
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBookPro5,1
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: jockey-gtk 0.5.5-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-11-generic root=UUID=6a5f8c22-b773-4d05-b619-5b65bfa38369 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: jockey
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 02/03/09
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MBP51.88Z.007E.B00.0902031928
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag#
dmi.board.name: Mac-F42D86A9
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.board.version: Proto
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset Tag#
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F42D86A9
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMBP51.88Z.007E.B00.0902031928:bd02/03/09:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro5,1:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-F42D86A9:rvrProto:cvnAppleInc.:ct8:cvrMac-F42D86A9:
dmi.product.name: MacBookPro5,1
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.