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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Greg,

further to my last email, the release team member I contacted stated..

1) it is up to the teams whether or not they include b43-fwcutter [1]
2) As far he was aware there are no copyright issues by including it.

I'd go along with that, as my understanding already was that they are open
source drivers for broadcom chipsets, in the same way as nouveau[2] is for
nVidia chipsets.

Regards,

Phill.
1.
http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/package/core/precise/multiverse/base/b43-fwcutter
2. http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/


On 27 September 2012 21:34, Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Greg,
>
> as noted, the b43 is on the LiveCD for lubuntu. I guess the surprise
> factor occurs when you are sat on your WiFi laptop with LiveCD working, do
> an install and POOOF!!! ... no WiFi..
>
> Once Julien has caught up on everything (hopefully over the weekend), a
> discussion can be had about this seemed anomaly.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
>
> On 27 September 2012 21:24, Greg Faith <gregfaith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 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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