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i have ubuntu karmic koala and vista home basic dual boot at my notebook. i do not have a wired net connection here, instead have wireless connection. the problem is ...
  1. 01-26-2010 #1
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    wireless problem

    i have ubuntu karmic koala and vista home basic dual boot at my notebook. i do not have a wired net connection here, instead have wireless connection. the problem is that the Broadcom B43 driver is not installed on ubuntu and i could not find out a way to install it offline.
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    The b43 driver is included, but the firmware is not. Depending on the chipset of your card, you may require the broadcom wl driver, which is also not included. It isn't too difficult to get either, but first, let's get some more info.

    Post the output of
    Code:
    lspci | grep -i net
    If your card is any of these, you should use the wl driver.
    Code:
    14e4:432b "Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller"
14e4:4329 "Broadcom Corporation BCM43XG"
14e4:4328 "Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n"
14e4:4315 "Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g"
14e4:4313 "Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 Ethernet Controller"
14e4:4312 "Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g"
14e4:4311 "Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN"
14e4:432d
14e4:432c
14e4:432a
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    Briefly, if you need the wl driver, check out this thread:
    http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubu...-problems.html

    Or this thread for 64 bit:
    http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wir...-wireless.html

    If you need the firmware, download the b43-fwcutter package from here. Select i386 for 32 bit, or amd64 for 64 bit. Transfer to your Ubuntu box, double click to install.

    Then download the firmware from here:
    http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources...0.53.0.tar.bz2

    Transfer it to your home folder on your Ubuntu box, open a terminal and do
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    export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
cd broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod
sudo ../../b43-fwcutter-012/b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta.o
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    There is a deb package containing the b43 firmware. Download this package, maybe save it to a USB drive, and install it on your Ubuntu system.

    http://au.ubuntu.cafuego.net/pool/ja...fuego1_all.deb
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