Wireless Firmware Missing Dell D600
I have a Dell D600 Latitude that I just installed Ubuntu 10.10 on, the install was perfect however I have tried without success to get the wireless card to work, says firmware missing, tried sudo aptitude update it says command not found, tried sudo aptitude install b43-fwcutter also get command not found, tried to update B43Legacy Wireless Driver I got SystemError: installArchives () failed, here is some info that might be helpful please help me get the card working.
description: Ethernet interface
product: NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 01
serial: 00:0f:1f:a0:54:78
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 66MHz
resources: irq:11 memory:
*-network:1
description: Network controller
product: BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 3
bus info: pci@0000:02:03.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
resources: irq:5 memory:
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:90:4b:7a:93:2e
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
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00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller [8086:3340] (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller [8086:3341] (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:24cd] (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:24cc] (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller [8086:24ca] (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller [0401]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-
00:1f.6 Modem [0703]: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] [1002:4c66] (rev 02)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:165d] (rev 01)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller [1217:7113] (rev 20)
02:01.1 CardBus bridge [0607]: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller [1217:7113] (rev 20)
02:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 02)
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:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
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 0G5152
/0/0 memory 64KiB BIOS
/0/400 processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 14
/0/400/700 memory 8KiB L1 cache
/0/400/701 memory 1MiB L2 cache
/0/1000 memory 512MiB System Memory
/0/1000/0 memory 256MiB DIMM DDR Synchronous 266 MH
/0/1000/1 memory 256MiB DIMM DDR Synchronous 266 MH
/0/100 bridge 82855PM Processor to I/O Controlle
/0/100/1 bridge 82855PM Processor to AGP Controlle
/0/100/1/0 display Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000
/0/100/1d bus 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-
/0/100/1d.1 bus 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-
/0/100/1d.2 bus 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-
/0/100/1d.7 bus 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHC
/0/100/1e bridge 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
/0/100/1e/0 eth0 network NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Etherne
/0/100/1e/1 bridge OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller
/0/100/1e/1.1 bridge OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller
/0/100/1e/3 network BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Con
/0/100/1f bridge 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Br
/0/100/1f.1 scsi0 storage 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller
/0/100/1f.1/0 /dev/sda disk 40GB HTS548040M9AT00
/0/100/1f.1/0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 35GiB EXT4 volume
/0/100/1f.1/0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 1496MiB Extended partition
/0/100/1f.1/0/2/5 /dev/sda5 volume 1496MiB Linux swap / Solaris parti
/0/100/1f.1/1 /dev/cdrom disk CDRW/DVD CRX830E
/0/100/1f.1/1/0 /dev/cdrom disk
/0/100/1f.5 multimedia 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-
/0/100/1f.6 communication 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-
/1 power DELL Y133844
/2 wlan0 network Wireless interface
Linux domonique-
[ 0.104602] ACPI: ACPI Dock Station Driver: 1 docks/bays found
[ 0.144533] HEST: Table is not found!
[ 0.197156] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices
[ 0.321791] ERST: Table is not found!
[ 0.464449] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.465041] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.465398] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.466097] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.528375] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 0.668772] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 1.095501] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 1.658609] ssb: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (cc 0x800, rev 0x02, vendor 0x4243)
[ 1.658616] ssb: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (cc 0x812, rev 0x04, vendor 0x4243)
[ 1.658623] ssb: Core 2 found: PCMCIA (cc 0x80D, rev 0x01, vendor 0x4243)
[ 1.658631] ssb: Core 3 found: V90 (cc 0x807, rev 0x01, vendor 0x4243)
[ 1.658638] ssb: Core 4 found: PCI (cc 0x804, rev 0x07, vendor 0x4243)
[ 1.658645] ssb: Core 5 found: IEEE 802.11 (cc 0x812, rev 0x04, vendor 0x4243)
[ 1.662063] ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:02:03.0
[ 17.585775] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 18.263840] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:01.0: CardBus bridge found [1028:011d]
[ 18.473863] yenta_cardbus 0000:02:01.1: CardBus bridge found [1028:011d]
[ 18.901540] b43legacy-phy0: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found
[ 18.937710] b43legacy-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 1, Type 2, Revision 1
[ 18.937736] b43legacy-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2050, Revision 2
[ 20.786512] b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43legacy/
[ 1.658577] b43-pci-bridge 0000:02:03.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
[ 18.901540] b43legacy-phy0: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found
[ 18.937710] b43legacy-phy0 debug: Found PHY: Analog 1, Type 2, Revision 1
[ 18.937736] b43legacy-phy0 debug: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2050, Revision 2
[ 18.960306] b43legacy-phy0 debug: Radio initialized
[ 20.786512] b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43legacy/
[ 20.786520] b43legacy-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://
[ 0.000000] APIC: switched to apic NOOP
[ 0.005829] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[ 0.145613] Switching to clocksource tsc
[ 0.291898] input: Lid Switch as /devices/
[ 0.292271] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
[ 0.302670] Switching to clocksource acpi_pm
[ 19.915746] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
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.
* Reconfiguring network interfaces... Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.
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