Comment 35 for bug 197819

Hey folks, I think there's two separate problems here:
1. The restricted drivers program installs the fwcutter in such a way that it doesn't offer to download the firmware, while installing the same package via synaptic does. This is obviously confusing for new users, but can be solved by simply completely removing the b43-fwcutter package and reinstalling it via synaptic.

2. There is an outstanding bug in network-manager which causes it to crash after asking for a wireless passphrase. This bug is solved by the debdiff posted in Bug #204868, but hasn't been applied to the network-manager package in the repositories yet.

Hope this helps.