bcm43xx firmware not available - bcm 4318 wireless card not working

I am rejecting this bug, since the apparent problem was that the bcm43xx-fwcutter had to be installed, and the firmware obtained and "cut" before things would work right.

Thanks to crimsun for pointing me in the right direction.

Ideally, the firmware cutter should have been autoinstalled on installing Ubuntu, and the firmware obtained and cut, but I understand some people prefer ndiswrapper over this solution, and so it is left to the users choice.

It would be great if networkmanager told me that i had to install either bcn43xx-fwcutter or ndiswrapper.

Thank you.

This should not be rejected since this is real problem. I am using BCM4306 under 6.10 with firmware method and it works. I download the firmware package from http://ubuntu.cafuego.net/pool/edgy-cafuego/bcm43xx/bcm43xx-firmware_1.3-1ubuntu2_all.deb. This method is not the most stable but I am trying to avoid ndiswrapper solution. This firmware package does not work under feisty.

Under 7.04 2.6.20-13, I tried the Ubuntu repos and got nowhere. I first install bcm43xx-fwcutter (from feisty repo) and then it prompted for firmware (which I installed). I got nothing from network-manager with this solution and it does not even show anything from dmesg. The firmware is under /lib/firmware just like 6.10

lshw -class network shows this for wireless device.

description: Wireless interface
       product: BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@02:02.0
       logical name: eth2
       version: 03
       serial: 00:90:4b:99:e7:23
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bcm43xx driverversion=2.6.20-13-generic latency=64 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b/g
       resources: iomemory:e0104000-e0105fff irq:21

What other information is required to find the source of this problem?

I take it back. Not sure how or why but under 7.04 with 2.6.20-14, I was able to get it working with BCM4306. As I always try the newbie method (pure GUI), I was only able to get it working by using the Gnome Network Applet Control (left click on applet in Gnome panel). I then selected "connect to other wireless network". I then type essid and specified no wireless security. It then connected and worked fine. Going back to Gnome Network Setttings (system -> administation), I could then select roaming mode and that worked now too. It seems the trick was adjusting some setting in the Applet first. I tried duplicating this problem and can not. If I knew what settings files were updated, I would reset them and try this again.

 Dumb question : Why does Network Settings -> wireless device -> properties not have Security "None" like edgy. It only has WEP ASCII and WEP HEX. Shouldn't "None" be there?

Correction : Edgy say "Plain ASCII" and "Hexdecimal" for password type. Feisty now says WEP ASCII and WEP Hexdecimal. I assumed this was the same thing but I'm confused why WEP name convention is used when WEP is not turned on....

I disagree, this bug shouldn't be rejected.

I just installed feisty (fresh install), and neither during the live CD session or after the install, could I use my wireless... First, when loading from live CD, it outputted a bunch of bcm43xx driver could not be found or something similar. Then, when I booted into feisty, I never got any warning that I needed to install bcm43xx-fwcutter or ndiswrapper. I tried sparc128 way of clicking on the applet, but that didn't work either. A real noob would run into big problems, and a least a message saying that those packages need to be installed should be displayed.

Let me know what you think...

It is also unavailable on an asus a6m(sempron 3400+/nforce2)!
The broadcom firmware just refuse to work and to be configured!!!

+1 for making this not a bug anymore!