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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

as you say, I'm only raising the concerns of someone for whom the LiveCD
worked fine and after installation had no WiFi. I'll go back through the
emails and have him raise a bug. The chat about it is on this ML.

Regards,

Phill.

On 29 September 2012 01:22, ∅ <maps.backward@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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> > >
> >
> >
> >
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