Public bug reported:
Although not a restricted driver, I think that the restricted firmware
to allow broadcom cards to use bcm43xx drivers should be installable
through the restricted driver manager. The reason for this is that many
people don't know that broadcom cards have native support and instead
think that they need to go through the hassle of using NDIS wrapper to
get their broadcom wireless chipset to work in Ubuntu, either that or
after seeing how hard it is to get NDIS wrapper working they give up on
Ubuntu altogether.
I think that a solution to this problem would be to have retricted-
manager detect supported broadcom chipsets and offer to install the
package bcm43xx-fwcutter ( and automatically choose to have it download
and extract the firmware ).
** Affects: restricted-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Firmware for broadcom cards should be included in restricted-manager
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/118581
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