Ubuntu 9.10 Broadcom Wireless Solved


Posted by Michael Johnson on November 3, 2009, 10:03 am
in General ( Startup-Something)

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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