Wireless Internet "Device Not Ready"

[ronubunt]

Hey Chili, once again thank you very much for all this help.

Where I'm at now is I connected my computer directly to the router with a "firewire" cord or whatever, sorry don't know the proper terms. From there I was able to connect to the internet with my wired ethernet connection. I tried the sudo

sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter


and got this

sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package b43-fwcutter


I then followed your link to that alternate firmware package, and after struggling for a while to figure out how to get the "permissions" to be able to extract the files into lib\firmware I got the files in there, but haven't seen any change in my wireless. Still says "device not ready"

I appreciate all your patients and help, any idea of where I can go from here?

[ronubunt]

update!


Not sure what made the difference since my last post, I refreshed the network and didn't see any changes. But just now I took a look and it is working! So I'm guessing it was the firmware download you linked me to. Thank you very much for all your help, I am EXTREMELY greatful.

[chili555]

Glad it's working! Enjoy!

[vzybilly]

i'm having the same issue, i did what y'all did here and it still didn't work

vzybilly@VZYServ:~$ dmesg | grep b43
[    1.394579] b43-pci-bridge 0000:02:03.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[    8.869749] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found (core revision 9)
[    9.051700] Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
[    9.051720] Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
[    9.051742] Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
[   22.852369] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found
[   22.852375] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode5.fw" not found
[   22.852379] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.
[343377.517230] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found
[343377.517237] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode5.fw" not found
[343377.517241] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.
vzybilly@VZYServ:~$ sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
[sudo] password for vzybilly: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  b43-fwcutter
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 16.3kB of archives.
After this operation, 81.9kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main b43-fwcutter i386 1:013-2 [16.3kB]
Fetched 16.3kB in 0s (31.6kB/s)       
Selecting previously deselected package b43-fwcutter.
(Reading database ... 124238 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking b43-fwcutter (from .../b43-fwcutter_1%3a013-2_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up b43-fwcutter (1:013-2) ...
vzybilly@VZYServ:~$ dmesg | grep b43
[    1.394579] b43-pci-bridge 0000:02:03.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[    8.869749] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found (core revision 9)
[    9.051700] Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
[    9.051720] Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
[    9.051742] Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
[   22.852369] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found
[   22.852375] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode5.fw" not found
[   22.852379] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.
[343377.517230] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found
[343377.517237] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode5.fw" not found
[343377.517241] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.
vzybilly@VZYServ:~$ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
vzybilly@VZYServ:~$ dmesg | grep wlan
vzybilly@VZYServ:~$

i restarted and got this

vzybilly@VZYServ:~$ dmesg | grep b43
[    1.396367] b43-pci-bridge 0000:02:03.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[   27.397177] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4318 WLAN found (core revision 9)
[   27.892903] Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
[   27.892924] Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
[   27.892944] Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
[   30.307648] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found
[   30.307654] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode5.fw" not found
[   30.307658] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.
vzybilly@VZYServ:~$

thanks for all of your help, it would be awesome if the wireless would work on this computer