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It's come to me knowledge that b43-fwcutter is a FIRMWARE cutter which is to say it doesn't include the firmware. I believe someone mentioned this recently and it's also in the Broadcom wiki page [1]. So a connection is still required in order to download the firmware itself. This involves two files [2,3] and I'm not sure if installing b43-fwcutter actually downloads the latest or simply the two files mentioned the wiki. I can tell you for sure that I don't get wireless capacity with 20120926. So maybe take it off the TODO list after all ;)

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[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx
[2] http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
[3] http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2

On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 23:37:05 +0100
Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Boss,
> 
> so as to stop the restless natives :P It does certainly appear the b43
> support is on the LiveCD but not on the install iso's. I did have a quick
> check with -release and they said that it is a flavour specific decision as
> to if it is included. I'd ask that as we have it on LiveCD image it also be
> on install images. This prevents someone who has a WiFi working computer
> whilst testing Lubuntu out does not have WiFi vanish after installing.
> 
> If you would be so kind as to add this to your ever expanding TODO list.
> I'm hopeful that it is an easy one to add to the seed. Which no doubt
> really does need to go onto a diet.. I know, I know :)
> 
> Give me a poke if you want a bug report filing to keep everyone happy.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phill.
> 
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