okay, to follow-on from my last post. I managed to get things working as follows:
I downloaded the latest 8.10 alpha 6, deleted the old partitions and performed a CLEAN INSTALL. by default there is NO FIRMWARE installed. I had to manually follow the instructions on: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware (b43-cutter utility NOT installed by default) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Use version 011 of b43-fwcutter. Download, extract the b43-fwcutter tarball and build it: wget http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2 tar xjf b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2 cd b43-fwcutter-011 make cd .. Use version 4.80.53.0 of Broadcom's proprietary driver. Download and extract the firmware from this driver tarball: export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware" wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 cd broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod sudo ../../b43-fwcutter-011/b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta.o ---------------------------------------------------------------------- then I did "modprobe -r b43; modprobe b43" then got prompted for key.. but STILL TIMED OUT. then I followed the excellent instructions from Larry Finger here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/182716 I dumped the contents of my SPROM, manually modifed (in my case, this was changing the low-order board flags from 0x000f to 0x000e). after a reboot, things sprang into life. So... a heads-up. Whatever kernel is shipping with 8.10alpha6 (2.6.27-3) would still appear to be broken. My earlier offer to test and debug still stands... for the moment... now that I got this working, I'm going to start using this machine soon... so shout quickly if you want me to test anything :-) best regards, stephen -- Broadcom 4306 doesn't work! I cannot connect to any wireless network https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/210373 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
