I managed to solve the problem listed in this thread. The detail follows: I just acquired a Dell Inspiron 600m laptop with a broken CD drive. After installing Ubuntu 8.04 using an external CD (using the 'help me boot with the CD' option that is available when Ubuntu 8.04 CD is inserted with Windows still running), I realized that the wireless network card was not working in Ubuntu.
Looking at the logs (System->Administration->System Log) I learned that Ubuntu was not able to find the firmware file ucode4.fw. I searched Google on ucode4.fw and found this thread, among others threads and articles. However, before I tried the solution listed in this thread, I decided to try another that looked easier (this other solution was obtained from post 2 of thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4617865) That solution worked like a charm (without much intervention from me. It only stopped to ask me if I wanted to get the firmware associated with my network card (not exact verbiage) and I said 'yes') The following is the listing from the terminal window (Please keep in mind that you will need an internet connection to implement this solution. I used the built-in wired connection of the laptop to solve this issue and get my wireless connection going): sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter 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 15.8kB of archives. After this operation, 102kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main b43-fwcutter 1:011-1 [15.8kB] Fetched 15.8kB in 0s (26.9kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package b43-fwcutter. (Reading database ... 113433 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking b43-fwcutter (from .../b43-fwcutter_1%3a011-1_i386.deb) ... Setting up b43-fwcutter (1:011-1) ... --00:10:54-- http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o => `wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o' Resolving downloads.openwrt.org... 195.56.146.238 Connecting to downloads.openwrt.org|195.56.146.238|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 652,866 (638K) [application/x-object] 100%[====================================>] 652,866 249.21K/s 00:10:57 (248.45 KB/s) - `wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o' saved [652866/652866] --00:10:57-- http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 => `broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2' Resolving downloads.openwrt.org... 195.56.146.238 Connecting to downloads.openwrt.org|195.56.146.238|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 904,072 (883K) [application/x-tar] 100%[====================================>] 904,072 262.13K/s ETA 00:00 00:11:00 (261.44 KB/s) - `broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2' saved [904072/904072] This file is recognised as: ID : FW10 filename : wl_apsta.o version : 295.14 MD5 : e08665c5c5b66beb9c3b2dd54aa80cb3 Extracting b43legacy/ucode2.fw Extracting b43legacy/ucode4.fw Extracting b43legacy/ucode5.fw Extracting b43legacy/ucode11.fw Extracting b43legacy/pcm4.fw Extracting b43legacy/pcm5.fw Extracting b43legacy/a0g0bsinitvals2.fw Extracting b43legacy/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw Extracting b43legacy/a0g0initvals5.fw Extracting b43legacy/a0g1bsinitvals5.fw Extracting b43legacy/a0g0initvals2.fw Extracting b43legacy/a0g1initvals5.fw Extracting b43legacy/b0g0bsinitvals2.fw Extracting b43legacy/b0g0initvals5.fw Extracting b43legacy/b0g0initvals2.fw Extracting b43legacy/a0g0bsinitvals5.fw broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/ broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/ broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta_mimo.o broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta.o broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/nas broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/wl broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/WHERE_FROM broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/libbcmcrypto.so This file is recognised as: ID : FW11 filename : wl_apsta_mimo.o version : 351.126 MD5 : 722e2e0d8cc04b8f118bb5afe6829ff9 Extracting b43/ucode4.fw Extracting b43/ucode5.fw Extracting b43/ucode11.fw Extracting b43/ucode13.fw Extracting b43/pcm4.fw Extracting b43/pcm5.fw Extracting b43/b0g0initvals4.fw Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals4.fw Extracting b43/a0g0initvals4.fw Extracting b43/a0g0bsinitvals4.fw Extracting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw Extracting b43/a0g0initvals5.fw Extracting b43/a0g1initvals5.fw Extracting b43/a0g0bsinitvals5.fw Extracting b43/a0g1bsinitvals5.fw Extracting b43/lp0initvals13.fw Extracting b43/lp0bsinitvals13.fw Extracting b43/b0g0initvals13.fw Extracting b43/b0g0bsinitvals13.fw Extracting b43/a0g1initvals13.fw Extracting b43/a0g1bsinitvals13.fw THAT IS IT!!! After this my wireless connection became 'aware' of all the wireless connections in the area which is a pretty good indication that it is ready to go - which it did and connected just fine. -- firmware_helper unable to load '/lib/firmware/b43legacy/ucode4.fw' https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/225098 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
