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wireless device not ready firmware missing in 11.04

Asked by Yong Cipres

With Ubuntu 10.10 wireless works well but upon installing 11.04 cannot use wireless with the message showing on Wicd.
Please help.
I am using compaq presario V2000

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Ian Ace (iaculallad) said : 		#1

Can it detect available ESSID's? Try deleting the configured ESSID name then re-connect from it again.

*If it does not still work, try changing the wireless password key of your configured ESSID on your WiFi AP*

HTH.

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Ian Ace (iaculallad) said : 		#2

Or you can try visiting Administrator->Additional Drivers if it can detect and install drivers for your wireless LAN card.

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Ubfan (ubfan1) said : 		#3

From a wired connection, install the b43-fwcutter package and accept the offer to download the Broadcom files. This should put the firmware files into the directory /lib/firmware/b43. If you still have the 10.10 installation around, you could just manually create the directory and copy the files in (recreate the same owner and permissions too).

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Yong Cipres (yongcipres) said : 		#4

@Ubfan, tried installing the package and got it but there was no offer to download broadcom files... Anything I may have missed? THanks.

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Best Ubfan (ubfan1) said : 		#5

The download offer only occurs the first time the package is installed, so try to completely remove the package and
try again to install (with a wired connection),
sudo apt-get purge b43-fwcutter
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter

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Ian Ace (iaculallad) said : 		#6

And don't forget to install the firmware installer:

sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer

HTH.

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Yong Cipres (yongcipres) said : 		#7

Thanks to Ubfan and Ian Ace below is what I did
From Synaptic package manager I completely removed b43-fwcutter and installed b43-fwcutter.
Then from Terminal I typed sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-installer, entered my password. Then clicked yes to some question.

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Yong Cipres (yongcipres) said : 		#8

Thanks Ubfan, that solved my question.