Comment 3 for bug 263097

Correction: original install was alpha4 (not 5)

However, now after the release of alpha 5 the system had been fully upgraded. The behaviour as described above has NOT changed.

uname -a: Linux cy810 2.6.27-2-generic #1 SMP Thu Aug 28 17:20:02 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

dmesg and lspci attached; but note following text :

calling "Hardware drivers" shows:
Firmware: Broadcom B43 wireless driver ; Enabled is NOT checked; Status is "in use"
Device driver: wl ; Enabled is checked; Status is "in use"
After clicking to enable firmware, a download appears to be initiated (it had asked for admin password), and it ends without any message. Firmware Status then says " need to restart". But very same situation after restart. The before-* files were taken at this stage.

Then went to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware (as shown in dmesg) and executed the command found on this site: sudo /usr/share/b43-fwcutter/install_bcm43xx_firmware.sh
This did result in a download, and the directories /lib/firmware/b43 and /lib/firmware/b43legacy were created. The Firmware enabled status received a checkmark. The after-* files were created after another reboot.

It seems that the firmware files were actually never downloaded?

I am now able to see the networks in my neighborhood as I would expect, but I still cannot connect. Neither manual nor automatic connection works. Cold reboot also does not help. Ethernet connection works flawlessly.

Now what?