unresponsive at broadcom firmware installation
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Restricted Manager |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
restricted-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Matteo Z |
Bug Description
Summary:
I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 (Tribe 5) on an Acer Aspire 3000 notebook. My wireless card is a bcm4318. bcm43xx firmware cannot be installed due to restricted drivers manager's unresponsiveness.
Details:
After installing Gutsy, I clicked on the restricted drivers manager and noticed that my broadcom 43xx firmware wasn't enabled. I clicked the broadcom firmware checkbox, a dialog box came up and I chose "Enable Firmware." A dialog box asking me whether I want to specify a file or a website for the firmware. When clicking browse (for the file), I get no response; when typing in the file's destination and clicking "OK," nothing happens. However, when I chose the url option and click ok, the file downloads. But, after it downloads, the dialog box closes and I'm just left with the Restricted Manager window.If I try to repeat this process again (2 or 3 times), the url option stops working and I must click the "X" button on the dialog box. After I click that button, Restricted Manager is still left and greyed out (only the close and x button works).
Oh, and sometime after installing and before enabling the firmware, a box came up saying i didn't have a needed repository enabled to install the firmware. So I enabled the universe and multiverse repositories.
Pictures:
Here's some pictures of what this looks like of what it looks like:
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Changed in restricted-manager: | |
assignee: | nobody → matteozandi |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
I believe we have three issues: xeve.de/ down/wl_ apsta.o")
- browse doesn't open a file picker (reproduced)
- message dialog "needed source not enabled" is probably hidden behind r-m main window
- fw_location is not updated with tmp location (reproduced, results in "Cannot open input file http://
> nothing happens
If everything went well, bcm43xx should be in enabled status and in use. Still we could pop out a warning if enabling goes wrong.. and hopefully not place it behind any window :)
Matteo