wireless help

[reed9]

Post the output of

b43-fwcutter -v

It looks like Ubuntu might have version 12, in which case change the firmware download to http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2

then

export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
cd broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver
sudo b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta.o

[cooltc2004]

I checked the version and it was 12, so I downloaded the new driver that you recommended and I get the same error message.

[reed9]

Doh. I looked closely at the instructions on the b43 wireless site and there is a slight change between the original instructions I thought were correct and the version 12 ones.

That last line should be

sudo b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta_mimo.o

[cooltc2004]

It looks like that might have worked! The wireless symbol was moving instead of having a red !, but it won't connect here at work. I'll try it when I get home.

Thank lot reed9 and MikeTbob!!!