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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hiyas,

So, maybe you could explain the anomaly whereby the LiveCD works with the
broadcom chipset? I'm not a great fan of pages upon pages of discussions on
the finer art of stuff... I'm a fan of ... "Yeah, that works". My request
is that as we have LiveCD work fine with b43, but it is not included in
install it should be. Currently this puts users in the rather precarious
and conflicting state of "If you're at all unsure if your system will work,
please use the LiveCD"....

Regards,

Phill.



On 29 September 2012 00:00, ∅ <maps.backward@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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 ;)
>
> wxl
>
> [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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