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[Greg Faith <gregfaith@xxxxxxxxx>]

Top posting:

The b43/b43legacy drivers require *proprietary* firmware.

Here is a tip I wrote on one of the forums, but it does require a live USB
with persistence now a days.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1974013&highlight=nm_geo

I know it does not address the issue at hand.

Greg nm_geo



On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi UH, Ron, et-all,
>
> I assure you guys that the b43 issue is on my list to raise with Julien.
> I'm just doing some tidying up and have saught advice on the other video
> driver issue that is causing problems. Please do bear with me. I have only
> recently found the most likely suspects to the root cause of these problems
> and I'm not a 'kernel' person! I will be doing a bit more digging and then
> go ask about the best way to progress this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
>
> On 27 September 2012 19:23, UH <uhtlmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> As i said, i could connet with usb wlan stick (D-Link DWA 140, ralink
>> based). And yes, the error msg indicates the liinuxwireless.org site
>> wherefrom should be downloaded the needed firmware. But the LiveCD is
>> hardly useable in the actual state. . . And moreover, as far as i know
>> b43 would be essential for nearly  ANY ppc mac.
>>
>> Uli
>>
>> 2012/9/27 Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>> > Hiyas,
>> >
>> > it seems that b43 is not being installed. I've had it reported that it
>> works
>> > fine in LiveCD mode (where we can see b43 there to be ;oaded) but not
>> the
>> > actual installations. I'm waiting to have chat the person who looks
>> after
>> > what does get installed to ask if this was an oversight which can
>> easily be
>> > rectified. In the meantime, if you plugin via ethernet, checking for
>> > hard-ware drivers should prompt you to install the b43 ones.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Phill.
>>
>
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