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[Boris Reinhard <reinhard.boris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Almost there Fritz,

you will need to run

firmware-b43-installer

the legacy one is for oder cards, yours is one of the newer Airport extreme
cards.
Am 01.11.2014 21:30 schrieb "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
>>
>>
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