BCM4312 not supported by "Additional drivers". B43 is proposed, fails w/o useful message, "Not supported low-power chip"
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Jockey |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Release Notes for Ubuntu |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
jockey (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Maverick |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
After a fresh Maverick RC install, Jockeygtk (System > Administration > Additional Drivers) proposes to install either b43 or STA drivers for the BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01) wireless adapter in a Dell Inspiron 910 (Mini 9), BIOS is A00.
The attached error message appears, repeated attempts to enable the driver then fail.
Attempting to install from commnand line shows the actual problem:
magicfab@910:~$ sudo apt-get install firmware-
[sudo] password for magicfab:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
firmware-
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Setting up firmware-
Not supported low-power chip with PCI id 14e4:4315!
Aborting.
dpkg: error processing firmware-
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
firmware-
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
As a workaround you can:
sudo apt-get remove --purge firmware-
and then use the STA driver instead.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: jockey-gtk 0.5.10-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelMo
.var.log.
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 5 08:29:51 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate i386 (20100928)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 910
PackageArchitec
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: jockey
dmi.bios.date: 08/05/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A00
dmi.board.name: CN0F29
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 910
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
Changed in ubuntu-release-notes: | |
status: | New → Fix Committed |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
tags: |
added: verification-done removed: verification-needed |
Changed in jockey (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Changed in jockey (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → matjaz (matjazjevsnik) |
Changed in jockey (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | matjaz (matjazjevsnik) → nobody |
Changed in somerville: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
no longer affects: | dell |
I do confirm to have the exact same problem on my mini 9 and that Fabian's work around solved it.