Wireless Connection Problem

[wildmanne39]

Hi, if you want to do it in a terminal you need to do this.

sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43legacy-installer

[JazzyJoe70]

ok i ran them both but the b43legacy-installer gave me an error.

firmware-b43legacy-installer: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

i went ahead and restart the computer but it still didn't work.

[wildmanne39]

Hi, and is that the same error you get when you try to install it from synaptic?

[JazzyJoe70]

adrian@adrian-Latitude-D400:~$ sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
b43-fwcutter is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 198 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up firmware-b43legacy-installer (4.178.10.4-5) ...
Not supported card here (PCI id 14e4:165
14e4:4320)!
Use b43 firmware. This is just for the b43legacy driver.
Aborting.
dpkg: error processing firmware-b43legacy-installer (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
firmware-b43legacy-installer
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[wildmanne39]

Hi, run these command please and post the results please.

lspci -nn | grep 0280

Thank you

[JazzyJoe70]

This is what the wireless lan controller is using for driver the B43 driver.

*-network:1
description: Network controller
product: BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 3
bus info: pci@0000:01:03.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=32
resources: irq:5 memory:fcfec000-fcfedfff

[JazzyJoe70]

adrian@adrian-Latitude-D400:~$ lspci -nn | grep 0280
01:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 02)

[wildmanne39]

Hi, I installed them on my system through synaptic and through the terminal to make sure they installed and they did.
Please run these commands and if you get errors please post them here.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

I am checking to make sure you can install any packages at this time or if the package manager is broken.
Thank you

[JazzyJoe70]

I ran the update and upgrade everything installed fine except for b43legacy

Errors were encountered while processing:
firmware-b43legacy-installer
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[nm_geo]

Hi, I installed them on my system through synaptic and through the terminal to make sure they installed and they did.
Please run these commands and if you get errors please post them here.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

I am checking to make sure you can install any packages at this time or if the package manager is broken.
Thank you

+1 on
the update & upgrade are probably needed going to be a large number of updates.