Ubuntu 9.10 Broadcom Wireless Solved

Upgraded to Koala 9.1 today (when it showed up in my update)... which promptly broke my wireless card.

Here was the ultimate solution, since the hardware activate thingy didn't work:



wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz

2

tar xfvj broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2

sudo b43-fwcutter --unsupported -w /lib/firmware broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod/wl_apsta_mimo.o

and then I have to modprobe to get it to recognize it:

sudo modprobe b43

Now I have wireless - yay! Now so the darn thing will come up on startup

sudo gedit /etc/modules

Append the following:



# wireless

b43

save, and it comes up on the get go.

Other than that, I like 9.10 - starcraft actually runs under wine!

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