Comment 5 for bug 442941

i just installed 10.04 on PowerBook G4 and the wireless driver doesn't work out of the box (b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43legacy/ucode4.fw" not found or load failed.).

a quick google led me to believe that installing the b43-fwcutter package might get me up and running. trying to install b43-fwcutter from the Ubuntu Software Center gave:
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Package operation failed
The installation or removal of a software package failed.
installArchives() failed: Preconfiguring packages ...

Use of uninitialized value $reply in scalar chomp at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 66.

Use of uninitialized value $reply in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Passthrough.pm line 67.

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b43-fwcutter failed to preconfigure, with exit status 128

Use of uninitialized value $val in substitution (s///) at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Format/822.pm line 83.

Use of uninitialized value $val in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/Format/822.pm line 84.

Preconfiguring packages ...

dpkg: status database area is locked by another process

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is there a workaround for this bug?

if not, can this bug's importance be raised from "Medium"? a laptop without wireless is no fun :(