Ubuntu
b43-fwcutter package

  1. Bug #197819
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 197819

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der_vegi (m-may) wrote : Re: broadcom wireless not working fresh install of hardy

Cory, what i your output of 'dmesg'? This would give an idea, if the problem is the driver itself, or a problem of not loading the firmware.

A second aproach would be to do the steps, the install script shoud do, manually (steps extracted from /usr/share/b43-fwcutter/install_bcm43xx_firmware.sh):
go to some temporary directory, for example ~/b43-temp and perform the following steps:

cd ~
mkdir b43-temp
cd b43-temp
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
tar xfvj broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta.o
sudo chmod o+rx /lib/firmware/b43 /lib/firmware/b43legacy

Again, output of 'dmesg' would be helpful... Good luck!