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[Fritz Hudnut <este.el.paz@xxxxxxxxx>]

@Aere:

Thanks for that, but right, it's all about "cost/benefit" ratio . . . I've
been through this wifi thing a number of times but ubuntu sort of made me
"lazy" as it and LM both offer the "additional drivers" option, and
budda-bing . . . wifi was installed.  Even thinking that in my previous
install of 14.04 I had the wifi set up??? but maybe not . . . .

I have looked over these broadcom driver lists before . . . but, fairly
certain that 12.04 provided the "additional drivers" on wifi . . . but,
clearly it's been "modified" in 14.04 . . . .

F

On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Aere Greenway <Aere@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 11/01/2014 11:58 AM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
>
>> I eagerly ran those commands, and stuff happened . . . but on reboot the
>> same error message showed up, checked add'l drivers--no drivers available.
>> Maybe the G4 iBook isn't "b43-legacy"??  Same commands but without
>> "legacy"??  I know that traditionally wifi has been one of the "snafu's" .
>> . . it's not "mission critical" right now, but, benefit of a laptop is--it
>> can move . . . .
>>
>
> Fritz:
>
> I don't know what hardware your machine has, and what will solve the
> problem.  What you described reminded me of other things I have
> encountered, so I suggested something to look at.
>
> According to the information displayed by Synaptic Package Manager
> (probably coming from the packages themselves):
>
> firmware-b43legacy-installer
>
> This package downloads and installs the firmware needed by the b43legacy
> kernel driver for some Broadcom 43xx wireless network cards.
>
> Supported chipsets:
>  * BCM4301;
>  * BCM4306/2;
>  * BCM4306.
>
> firmware-b43-installer
>
> This package downloads and installs the firmware needed by the b43
> kernel driver for some Broadcom 43xx wireless network cards.
>
> Supported chipsets:
>  * BCM4306/3;
>  * BCM4311;
>  * BCM4318;
>  * BCM4321;
>  * BCM4322 (only 14e4:432b);
>  * BCM4312 (with Low-Power a.k.a. LP-PHY).
>
> If your hardware is not one of the above, either package will be of no
> help.
>
> Wireless access is something I struggle with in Linux.  To deal with it, I
> have a number of wireless dongles that plug into a USB port, that work
> out-of-the-box.
>
> I can plug one of those wireless dongles into the machine until I get the
> wireless the machine has working.
>
> Internet searches have provided useful information on how to get the
> wireless to work.  But I have not always succeeded in getting it working,
> and in some cases, what you have to do to get it working is not (to me)
> worth the work (and the risk to the system).
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Aere
>
>