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[UH <uhtlmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for all that infos. And i understand the situation pretty well,
i hope . . .

My only point is, that some time ago, i was able to get into the
internet booting from an ubuntu live-cd (9.10 or so) - and i didn't
have a wlanstick only the internal broadcom 4306 - but in some way the
cd did (i think by the option: you need a proprietarian driver -
translating from german here ;-) - with the help of jockey-gtk). Btw,
at those time i didn't go ubuntu since the cd drive was not supported
absolutely while in debian it was.

If there is no chance to provide an easy way to connect to the net
*FROM* the live-cd, which is in some way a must to do the installation
and if it's not asking too much, i'd say a nice how to for an average
mac user how to work around would be an excellent thing

2012/2/27 Paul Gorski <paul@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Regarding the b43 support, what you may have seen previously was the app
> (b43-fwcutter) that extracted the driver from the Windows firmware driver.
> The app may have been included, but not the propriety driver.
>
> The link Phill sent,
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx, explains it
> pretty well. But if you want some more technical information on it, visit:
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
>
> And the Gentoo Wiki explains the situation we're all in, stating what's at
> the Ubuntu link above, but explains it as: open source, NDIS Wrapper, and
> proprietary.  http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Broadcom_43xx
>
> Lastly, there's more information on the propriety drive at Broadcom's site,
> see the readme.txt.
> http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Paul Gorski