Ubuntu
jockey package

b43 wireless driver does not appear in Jockey

Bug #730290 reported by Stenten on 2011-03-06

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This bug affects 10 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	jockey (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Jockey doesn't offer the b43 wireless driver at any time: after a fresh install without internet, with internet, and even after I install it via "apt-get install firmware-b43-installer". This makes it impossible to install the wireless driver unless you already know the name of the package that needs to be installed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: jockey-gtk 0.9.1-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Mar 6 16:20:06 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20110302)
Lsusb:
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:0750 Microsoft Corp. Wired Keyboard 600
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude D505
PackageArchitecture: all
PccardctlIdent:
Socket 0:
no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
Socket 0:
no card
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-5-generic root=UUID=1fccd4b5-0777-4e74-9151-b0736132981b ro quiet
SourcePackage: jockey
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 11/03/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A11
dmi.board.name: 0H2049
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA11:bd11/03/2006:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeD505:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0H2049:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude D505
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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Stenten (stenten) wrote on 2011-03-06:

#1

.var.log.jockey.log.txt Edit (99.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
BootDmesg.txt Edit (53.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (123.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (4.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Devices.txt Edit (3.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (10.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (525 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (2.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (100.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (247.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Chad Kelly (chadkellybiz) wrote on 2011-04-19:

#2

Stenten, I used your recommendation "firmware-b43-installer", and it solved my problem. For my case, the laptop has both wired and wireless network. The wired lets me install firmware-b43-installer from the Ubuntu Software Center. Can you read and verify that the following bug report is the same as the one you are reporting? If so, could you please "Mark as a duplicate" from the top right of this webpage.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jockey/+bug/761091

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der_vegi (m-may) wrote on 2011-04-19:

#3

Same here with a BCM4311 [14e4:4312] (rev 01) chip on Ubuntu Natty Beta 2.

Changed in jockey (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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JC Martin (jean-c-us) wrote on 2011-04-19:

#4

Manually installing the 'firmware-b43-installer' while connected to a wired Internet, fixed it for me too.

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Jeffrey Flaker (jflaker) wrote on 2011-04-29:

#5

Installed via command line
sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

JC Martin's solution worked...I was immediately notified of newly available hardware drivers. It installed it and I immediately was connected to my router.

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Igor Starikov (idlesign) wrote on 2011-04-30:

#6

Acer Aspire 5005, BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g].

For me solution is working only with commented out "blacklist bcm43xx" thing in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf.

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Feisar (f3isar) wrote on 2011-05-01:

#7

Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

Same trouble.

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer solved it for me.

After that, no need to run Jockey as wireless networks were then available (perhaps after a reboot, I can't remember).

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Rüdiger Kupper (ruediger.kupper) wrote on 2011-06-11:

#8

Confirmed.

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Rüdiger Kupper (ruediger.kupper) wrote on 2011-06-11:

#9

Is this a duplicate of #465535? This was already reported in 9.10.

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Chad Kelly (chadkellybiz) wrote on 2011-06-11:

#10

Is this a duplicate of #465535?
According to Ubuntu Software Center 11.04

firmware-b43-installer is for: BCM4306/3, BCM4311, BCM4312 and BCM4318
bcmwl-kernel-source is for: BCM4311-, BCM4312-, BCM4313-, BCM4321-, BCM4322-, BCM43224-, and BCM43225-, BCM43227- and BCM43228

Though they are different drivers/versions for Broadcom's wireless cards, the core issue of Additional Drivers not auto identifying them for installation is presented in both bug reports. I think it should be marked as a duplicate, but add an additional comment noting firmware-b43-installer vs bcmwl-kernel-source differences.

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dino99 (9d9) wrote on 2013-05-04:

#11

eol reached https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Changed in jockey (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Invalid

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