Comments on: How To Enable BCM43xx in Ubuntu 8.04

By: marcel

marcel — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:13:19 +0000

Hello,

This works perfect to get a latitude d500 dell wireless conecting on ubuntu 8.04

Regards,

Marcel

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:35:42 +0000

Lifesaver.

By: Simon Francesco

Simon Francesco — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:30:36 +0000

You are a genius, I have spent months trying to get this to work with all manner of backports, different drivers, I even upgraded from Jaunty to Karmic, but your simple tip has my WiFi running! Thanks for publishing it.
So this also works for getting my BCM4306 running in 9.10 Karmic.
Cheers

By: weed monkey

weed monkey — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:58:36 +0000

Tries this in Jaunty & it worked

By: Liesbet

Liesbet — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 09:28:51 +0000

thanks!! this got the wireless connection working for me! I use a smartcard Siemens Gigaset PC Card 54 (s30853-s1007-r107-2)

By: Linux - Ubuntu 8.10 - connecting to wireless internet - Mac-Forums.com

Linux - Ubuntu 8.10 - connecting to wireless internet - Mac-Forums.com — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:08:41 +0000

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By: koshari

koshari — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 03:30:24 +0000

“how would one go about doing it if they’re trying to enable wifi to go on the internet?”

you would have to downlaod the deb package on another machine and hope all the dependency are met

use an ethernet conenction to get the package with apt/synaptic

make a personal repository or mydebs disc to install the package, either way you need to install the abovementioned package.

By: pragi

pragi — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:17:34 +0000

this worked perfectly for my buffalo wli-cb-g54a pcmcia card
on ubuntu 8.10 all lights flashing as they should be thanks for this, saved me getting a new card

peace

By: Hasmarth

Hasmarth — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 17:28:13 +0000

I have the same problem as hannah, i keep getting errors from Synaptic and when i try it in terminal. Is internet nessicary to do this? If so, how would one go about doing it if they’re trying to enable wifi to go on the internet?

By: hannah

hannah — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:16:44 +0000

tried this, b43-fwcutter package is installed (shows in synaptic package manager) but doesn’t show up in hardware drivers. what can I do?
i have hp dv 6650eo