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jockey package

  1. Bug #443185
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 443185

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: Unable to activate Broadcom b43 and STA drivers

I just tried that here, with faking jockey to think that my system has a broadcom wifi (I don't actually have one). I saw both the STA and the b43 drivers in Jockey. I enabled STA, it got installed (bcmwl-kernel-source), and jockey told me that the computer needs to be restarted (which is probably not true, it should work right away). the bcmwl-kernel-source package generated an appropriate /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-bcm43.conf as well.

I then opened Jockey again and selected the b43 driver (I didn't reboot). Again it downloaded the driver, installed it, and said that you need to reboot (unavoidable, sorry). It correctly downloaded and extracted the firmware to /lib/firmware/b43, but failed to remove the blacklist file; that's because installing b43 did not uninstall bcmwl-kernel-source, which it should. (or at least remove the blacklist).

Jim, did you have a network connection when you tried this? It has to download stuff from the internet (for b43) and from the Ubuntu archive (for both drivers).