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** No longer affects: somerville -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to jockey in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/655111 Title: BCM4312 not supported by "Additional drivers". B43 is proposed, fails w/o useful message, "Not supported low-power chip" Status in Jockey driver manager: Invalid Status in Release Notes for Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “jockey” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “jockey” source package in Maverick: Fix Released Bug description: After a fresh Maverick RC install, Jockeygtk (System > Administration > Additional Drivers) proposes to install either b43 or STA drivers for the BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01) wireless adapter in a Dell Inspiron 910 (Mini 9), BIOS is A00. The attached error message appears, repeated attempts to enable the driver then fail. Attempting to install from commnand line shows the actual problem: magicfab@910:~$ sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer [sudo] password for magicfab: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done firmware-b43-installer is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Setting up firmware-b43-installer (4.150.10.5-4) ... Not supported low-power chip with PCI id 14e4:4315! Aborting. dpkg: error processing firmware-b43-installer (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: firmware-b43-installer E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) As a workaround you can: sudo apt-get remove --purge firmware-b43-installer and then use the STA driver instead. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: jockey-gtk 0.5.10-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: wl .var.log.jockey.log: Architecture: i386 Date: Tue Oct 5 08:29:51 2010 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release Candidate i386 (20100928) MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 910 PackageArchitecture: all ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic root=UUID=4b58b2d3-3c3e-4f37-9175-c27ce81120af ro quiet splash ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: jockey dmi.bios.date: 08/05/2008 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.bios.version: A00 dmi.board.name: CN0F29 dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.board.version: A00 dmi.chassis.type: 8 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc. dmi.chassis.version: A00 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA00:bd08/05/2008:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron910:pvrA00:rvnDellInc.:rnCN0F29:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrA00: dmi.product.name: Inspiron 910 dmi.product.version: A00 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/jockey/+bug/655111/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

