bcm4311 wireless not working

[Andrew Golightly]

Just installed Maverick on a friends old laptop.

Wireless firmware is not being installed. His wireless card is a broadcom bcm4311.

I've read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx but going into Synaptic, the bcmwl-kernel-source module doesn't seem to be there. Looking in my Synaptic Package Manager, I see the module though (I'm still using Lucid).

As the computer is booting, I see this error message:


Oct 11 21:47:17 frano kernel: [ 16.518321] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found
Oct 11 21:47:17 frano kernel: [ 16.518409] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode5.fw" not found
Oct 11 21:47:17 frano kernel: [ 16.518485] 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.

What to do???

thanks,
Andrew

[IcarusR]

Have you read the linked web page in the error ?? Have you tried the instruction there ?

Install Lucid ??

There will undoubtedly be teething problems / bugs with Maverick for the next couple of months.

Personally I never install any new OS till it has been out for a few months for this reason.

[snafu006]

With that wireless card you need to first get that updates do to that just connect the ethernet cord in to the computer from the modem or router . now if you stealing internet and you have a MAC computer just plug in the ethernet cord from the MAC computer to the ubuntu computer and share the connection worked for me a long time ago lol.

[Andrew Golightly]

I ended up inserting the Lucid disk... reloading Synaptic so that it read packages from there too... then installed a couple of b43* packages.

Got it all working now. Thanks.