I have questions on two levels. The first is about "b43-fwcutter" meta-package. Pseudo binary package, firmware-b43-installer's postinst is still using firmware for kernel below 3.2. http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/raring/b43-fwcutter/raring/view/head:/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Other_distributions_not_mentioned_above
As you compare the script and the upstream page, you may note that BCM4331 is said to be supported in upstream page (true as my laptop has BCM4331 and I can use it) but the script still uses old firmware regard BCM4331 as unsupported. Old new though, anyone review the proposed patch? https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/b43-fwcutter/+bug/912941 There are unanswered bug in Debian also. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=682427 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678258 The second is about jockey/u-d-commons. As I skim through the source code, I haven't seen anything that handles b43 installation. I'm now using 12.04, Jockey gives me no hint on additional drivers. On another two laptops I encountered that also have BCM wireless chips, Jockey on 10.04 pops up for both STA driver b43 driver. On both machine only b43 works. So I'd like to ask why graphical tools don't try to help people on installing b43, which is commonly needed today. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
