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[UH <uhtlmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg!

Like you expose it, it seems a circulus vitiosus (given you start your
mac with a live-cd to install (l)ubuntu you have to relay on that
machine to go to the net but you can't since there isn't the
firmware!).

BUT: As i said - in former times (Ubuntu 8.04 or 8.10) it wasn't like
that. I started a Dell laptop with broadcom chipset from the live-cd.
Wireless (internet connection) did not work. I had to activate (in
System Tools) the utility "Additional drivers" (translating from
german here, i think it's jockey-gtk) and - ZACK - the connection was
there. And i remember the same - but in some earlier version - for
ppc.

I don't see any reason why it should not work in this way, or are
there some recent legal restrictions?

Cheers,

Uli


2012/9/28 Greg Faith <gregfaith@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Yeah as long as you have internet (ethernet) having b43-fwcutter and
> firmware-b43legacy-installer already installed will allow you to get the
> firmware.  Of course if you have working ethernet connection you could get
> them with Synaptic.
>
> It is the firmware.. that is missing.. and the firmware that is set-up and
> installed by those two.