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I think the anomaly is in your assumption that it does work. I have tried it on two different Broadcom-equipped ppc machines and it does not work. As I said before, it's because everything is not included. b43-fwcutter is not the driver; it's a tool that extracts and installs the firmware which itself needs to be downloaded separately. So if you want to make it work, that download should have already been done. Not to mention it needs to go through the process of installation. If this still doesn't make sense, I suggest reading Greg's email on the subject [1]. It also may help to understand what b43-fwcutter does (and that it relies upon other files). Check out the man page [2]. If done a bit of searching and can't find either of those two aforementioned files. FYI the machine I'm next to now has a BCM4306.

wxl

[1] https://lists.launchpad.net/lubuntu-qa/msg01346.html
[2] http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/man1/b43-fwcutter.1.html

On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 01:00:55 +0100
Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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