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suddenly i cant get any wierless connections! help pls

Asked by Radovan Andjelic

One month ago, I bought new laptop and for the first time I encountered linux. Updates come up every time i start up my comp and all install but one. When I try to instal it this error comes up : "the installation or removal of a softwere package failed.
Details:
Instal archives () failed : reading databese...
reading databese ...5%
 reading databese...10%
read....
reading databese 100%...
 (reading databese ...212525 files and directories currently installed.)
 Prepating to replace linux-firmware 1.79.1 (using .../ linux-firmware_1.79.11_all.deb) ...
unpacking replacement linux-firmware ...
dpkg: error processing/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-firmware_1.79.11_all.deb (-unpack):
trying to overwrite'/lib/firmware/ar3k/
 athrBT_0x31010000.dfu',which is also in package bt-dw1705-firmware 0.1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-firmware_1.79.11_all.deb
Error in function: "
And now i have no idea what to do. I dont know does it have to do something with my wierless but since this update came i cannot get any wierless. And please if you have a answer to this PLEASE explain it to me like you would explain it to a 70 Y/O grandma. I have NO expirience with programing. And sorry for my grammar.

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

sudo dpkg --force-all -i /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-firmware_1.79.11_all.deb
sudo apt-get -f install

Also run:

ubuntu-bug linux-firmware

To report a bug for the packages.

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Radovan Andjelic (radovan-andjelic44) said : 		#2

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

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Radovan Andjelic (radovan-andjelic44) said : 		#3

But I cant send report beacouse I have no internet still. Can you help me with that ass well?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

You must have or did you manually copy the updates to your system?

You can use:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug/?no-redirect

To report the bug manually. Please make a new question for the Internet issue.

Thanks

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Jedrzej K (jedr-ka) said : 		#5

Hi,
I had the same problem as Radovan on my new dell 3537.
After updating ubuntu 12.4 provided by dell, wifi stopped working and some errors appeared.
But after some recognition i discovered that error in linux-firmware update wasn't causing wifi problems. Problem with wifi was caused by oem-wireless-ath9k-3.9-rc4-2-dmks_0.1_all.deb provided by dell. It was crashing during update but error was hidden somehow. I had to comment out kref_get_unless_zero function in source code(compat-3.8.h) and reinstall this package (it had some incompatibility with 3.8 kernel and that's why error occurred after updates).
But updating linux-firmware_1.79.11_all.deb still causes errors, but hopefully wifi works for me.