SystemError: installArchives() failed when installing wireless drivers
This question was asked before but it seems to have solved itself so the was no resolution written. When I try to update the drivers for my wireless card I get a "SystemError: installArchives() failed" error msg. I followed the instructions on the prior question and here is what came up:
ellen@EBlaptop:~$ sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install hwinfo grep; sudo lshw -C network; rfkill list; sudo iwlist scanning; cat /etc/network/
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Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
grep is already the newest version.
hwinfo is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up firmware-
Not supported low-power chip with PCI id 14e4:4315!
Aborting.
dpkg: error processing firmware-
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
firmware-
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller
vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 12
serial: 00:23:ae:04:0b:a8
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
resources: irq:43 memory:
*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0b:00.0
version: 01
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
resources: irq:17 memory:
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:23:4d:80:bc:18
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_
DISTRIB_
DISTRIB_
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a00] (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a02] (rev 0c)
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a03] (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2834] (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2835] (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:283a] (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:284b] (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:283f] (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2841] (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 [8086:2847] (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2830] (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2831] (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2832] (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:2836] (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller [8086:2815] (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller [8086:2850] (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE Controller [8086:2828] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:283e] (rev 02)
02:09.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832] (rev 05)
02:09.1 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/
02:09.2 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [1180:0592] (rev 12)
02:09.3 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller [1180:0852] (rev 12)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller [11ab:4354] (rev 12)
0b:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
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 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 05a9:2640 OmniVision Technologies, Inc. OV2640 Webcam
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
H/W path Device Class Description
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/0 bus Motherboard
/0/0 memory 64KiB BIOS
/0/400 processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) Dual CPU T3
/0/400/700 memory 32KiB L1 cache
/0/400/701 memory 1MiB L2 cache
/0/400/0.1 processor Logical CPU
/0/400/0.2 processor Logical CPU
/0/1000 memory 3GiB System Memory
/0/1000/0 memory 1GiB DIMM DDR Synchronous 667 MHz
/0/1000/1 memory 2GiB DIMM DDR Synchronous 667 MHz
/0/100 bridge Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory C
/0/100/2 display Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Gra
/0/100/2.1 display Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Gra
/0/100/1a bus 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Con
/0/100/1a.1 bus 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Con
/0/100/1a.7 bus 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Co
/0/100/1b multimedia 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Con
/0/100/1c bridge 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
/0/100/1c/0 eth0 network 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Contr
/0/100/1c.1 bridge 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
/0/100/1c.1/0 network BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY
/0/100/1c.4 bridge 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express
/0/100/1d bus 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Con
/0/100/1d.1 bus 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Con
/0/100/1d.2 bus 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Con
/0/100/1d.7 bus 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Co
/0/100/1e bridge 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
/0/100/1e/9 bus R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
/0/100/1e/9.1 generic R5C822 SD/SDIO/
/0/100/1e/9.2 generic R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adap
/0/100/1e/9.3 generic xD-Picture Card Controller
/0/100/1f bridge 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Co
/0/100/1f.1 scsi0 storage 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE
/0/100/1f.1/0.0.0 /dev/cdrom disk DVD+-RW TS-L632H
/0/100/1f.2 scsi2 storage 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0 /dev/sda disk 250GB WDC WD2500BEVT-7
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 224GiB EXT4 volume
/0/100/1f.2/0.0.0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 8997MiB Extended partition
/0/100/
/0/100/1f.3 bus 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Contro
/1 power DELL X409G8A
/2 wlan0 network Wireless interface
Linux EBlaptop 2.6.35-22-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 20:36:48 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
[ 0.240437] ACPI: No dock devices found.
[ 0.327373] HEST: Table is not found!
[ 0.327830] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 0.327845] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 0.327875] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 0.336045] Switching to clocksource tsc
[ 0.391289] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices
[ 0.447826] input: Lid Switch as /devices/
[ 0.448513] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
[ 0.458741] ERST: Table is not found!
[ 0.468051] Switching to clocksource hpet
[ 0.640153] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.660252] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.660606] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.660912] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.661198] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.661478] hub 6-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.661764] hub 7-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.689997] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.1.1 loaded
[ 0.690000] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 0.693355] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 0.830290] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 0.974561] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
[ 2.219195] sky2 0000:09:00.0: eth0: addr 00:23:ae:04:0b:a8
[ 2.223355] b43-pci-bridge 0000:0b:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 2.223374] b43-pci-bridge 0000:0b:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 2.240174] ssb: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (cc 0x800, rev 0x16, vendor 0x4243)
[ 2.240194] ssb: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (cc 0x812, rev 0x0F, vendor 0x4243)
[ 2.240212] ssb: Core 2 found: PCMCIA (cc 0x80D, rev 0x0A, vendor 0x4243)
[ 2.240231] ssb: Core 3 found: PCI-E (cc 0x820, rev 0x09, vendor 0x4243)
[ 2.288159] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:0b:00.0
[ 2.316075] sdhci-pci 0000:02:09.1: SDHCI controller found [1180:0822] (rev 22)
[ 12.224277] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 12.519741] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Laptop Integrated Webcam (05a9:2640)
[ 12.591574] uvcvideo: UVC non compliance - GET_DEF(PROBE) not supported. Enabling workaround.
[ 12.593334] input: Laptop Integrated Webcam as /devices/
[ 12.593402] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[ 12.705984] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4312 WLAN found (core revision 15)
[ 12.842389] Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
[ 12.842410] Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
[ 12.842430] Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
[ 12.842502] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PL, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]
[ 13.225733] sky2 0000:09:00.0: eth0: enabling interface
[ 13.228203] ADDRCONF(
[ 13.342001] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode15.fw" not found
[ 13.351524] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/
[ 13.361030] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://
[ 14.272263] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x50
[ 14.291884] [Firmware Bug]: Duplicate ACPI video bus devices for the same VGA controller, please try module parameter "video.
[ 14.600174] input: HDA Intel Mic at Ext Front Jack as /devices/
[ 14.600274] input: HDA Intel HP Out at Ext Front Jack as /devices/
[ 14.600342] input: HDA Intel HP Out at Ext Front Jack as /devices/
[ 15.303599] sky2 0000:09:00.0: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex, flow control both
[ 15.303797] ADDRCONF(
[ 25.360021] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
/etc/modprobe.
/etc/modprobe.
/etc/modprobe.
27: PCI 900.0: 0200 Ethernet controller
[Created at pci.318]
UDI: /org/freedeskto
Unique ID: rBUF.4UBfJT4u929
Parent ID: z8Q3.suiQRxhOxw7
SysFS ID: /devices/
SysFS BusID: 0000:09:00.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: "Marvell 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller"
Vendor: pci 0x11ab "Marvell Technology Group Ltd."
Device: pci 0x4354 "88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller"
SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell"
SubDevice: pci 0x022f
Revision: 0x12
Driver: "sky2"
Driver Modules: "sky2"
Device File: eth0
Memory Range: 0xfe8fc000-
I/O Ports: 0xde00-0xdeff (rw)
IRQ: 43 (1772 events)
HW Address: 00:23:ae:04:0b:a8
Link detected: yes
Module Alias: "pci:v000011ABd
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: sky2 is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe sky2"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #15 (PCI bridge)
28: PCI b00.0: 0282 WLAN controller
[Created at pci.318]
UDI: /org/freedeskto
Unique ID: y9sn.K1bklAmqTZ1
Parent ID: qTvu.ujbwO4xo_h8
SysFS ID: /devices/
SysFS BusID: 0000:0b:00.0
Hardware Class: network
Model: "Dell Wireless 1395 WLAN Mini-Card"
Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom"
Device: pci 0x4315 "BCM4312 802.11b/g"
SubVendor: pci 0x1028 "Dell"
SubDevice: pci 0x000b "Wireless 1395 WLAN Mini-Card"
Revision: 0x01
Driver: "b43-pci-bridge"
Driver Modules: "ssb"
Device File: wlan0
Features: WLAN
Memory Range: 0xfe7fc000-
IRQ: 17 (11317 events)
HW Address: 00:23:4d:80:bc:18
Link detected: yes
WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447 2.452 2.457 2.462 2.467 2.472 2.484
WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP
WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap
Module Alias: "pci:v000014E4d
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: ssb is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe ssb"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #16 (PCI bridge)
Module Size Used by
parport_pc 26058 0
ppdev 5556 0
snd_hda_codec_idt 54887 1
snd_hda_
binfmt_misc 6599 1
joydev 8735 0
arc4 1165 2
snd_hda_intel 22107 2
snd_hda_codec 87552 3 snd_hda_
snd_hwdep 5040 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 71475 2 snd_hda_
snd_seq_midi 4588 0
i915 291004 3
snd_rawmidi 17783 1 snd_seq_midi
drm_kms_helper 30200 1 i915
snd_seq_midi_event 6047 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 47174 2 snd_seq_
b43 168681 0
drm 168054 4 i915,drm_kms_helper
snd_timer 19067 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 5744 3 snd_seq_
mac80211 231541 1 b43
dell_wmi 2852 0
uvcvideo 55847 0
videodev 43098 1 uvcvideo
r852 9536 0
dell_laptop 5730 0
sm_common 3285 1 r852
dcdbas 5402 1 dell_laptop
v4l1_compat 13359 2 uvcvideo,videodev
nand 34905 2 r852,sm_common
nand_ids 2903 1 nand
nand_ecc 3938 1 nand
snd 49006 13 snd_hda_
cfg80211 144470 2 b43,mac80211
intel_agp 26360 2 i915
psmouse 59033 0
serio_raw 4022 0
i2c_algo_bit 5168 1 i915
video 18712 1 i915
mtd 18877 2 sm_common,nand
output 1883 1 video
soundcore 880 1 snd
agpgart 32011 2 drm,intel_agp
snd_page_alloc 7120 2 snd_hda_
lp 7342 0
parport 31492 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
sdhci_pci 6339 0
firewire_ohci 21106 0
ssb 39288 1 b43
sdhci 15890 1 sdhci_pci
sky2 45127 0
led_class 2633 2 b43,sdhci
firewire_core 46643 1 firewire_ohci
crc_itu_t 1383 1 firewire_core
[main]
NetworkingEnabl
WirelessEnabled
WWANEnabled=true
* Reconfiguring network interfaces... Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.
ellen@EBlaptop:~$
I'm running a Dell Inspiron 1525
Thanks for any help
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