i still can't get wireless going. with Ubuntu or Kubuntu 8.04 Dell Latitude D600 (currently on Kubuntu) kernel 2.6.24-19-generic
lsmod | grep b43 b43 144420 0 rfkill 8592 34 rfkill_input,b43 mac80211 165652 1 b43 led_class 6020 1 b43 input_polldev 5896 1 b43 ssb 34308 1 b43 lspci -vvnn 02:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4309 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4324] (rev 03) Subsystem: Dell Truemobile 1450 MiniPCI [1028:0003] Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 32 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5 Region 0: Memory at fafee000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] I've tried to dpkg -P to remove, then reboot, then apt-get install. Here is the output from that: 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 0B/15.8kB of archives. After this operation, 102kB of additional disk space will be used. Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package b43-fwcutter. (Reading database ... 89796 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking b43-fwcutter (from .../b43-fwcutter_1%3a011-1_i386.deb) ... Setting up b43-fwcutter (1:011-1) ... --17:39:24-- http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o => `wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o' Resolving downloads.openwrt.org... failed: Name or service not known. dpkg: error processing b43-fwcutter (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: b43-fwcutter E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) I have a new wireless nic (intel) on the way (yes, I gave up), but still there is so much documentation out there, it's killing me that I can't get this going. So as last resort, I thought I'd try my luck here. If there is any help please post and/or feel free to email me. Thanks! -- [Hardy]b43-fwcutter install script fails to fetch firmware in first run https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197819 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