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Asked by John Kelly

Hi
having replaced harddrive and installed natty from desktop CD onto my amd64 HP laptop I have difficulty installing to wireless. I think it says firmware missing!
thanks for help
John

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C network; lsb_release -a; rfkill list

Thanks

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John Kelly (lioganach) said : 		#2

john@abraham:~$ sudo lshw -C network; lsb_release -a; rfkill list
[sudo] password for john:
  *-network:0
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:06:02.0
       version: 02
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master
       configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=64
       resources: irq:21 memory:c0200000-c0201fff
  *-network:1
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 6
       bus info: pci@0000:06:06.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 10
       serial: 00:16:d4:30:f3:2f
       size: 100Mbit/s
       capacity: 100Mbit/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=full ip=10.0.0.230 latency=128 link=yes maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
       resources: irq:22 ioport:a000(size=256) memory:c0202000-c02020ff
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 3
       logical name: wlan0
       serial: 00:14:a5:b0:33:76
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=b43 driverversion=2.6.38-8-generic firmware=N/A link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
Codename: natty
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Ok if you run:

sudo iwlist scan

Do you see wireless networks?

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John Kelly (lioganach) said : 		#4

On 24/06/11 17:31, actionparsnip wrote:
> sudo iwlist scan
 cant see wireless networks

ohn@abraham:~$ sudo iwlist scan
[sudo] password for john:
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

john@abraham:~$

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Best Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#5

Hi,

Please first connect your network card to the wireless router using an ethernet cable (also known as a LAN cable).

Then please proceed with the following Terminal commands:

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

b43-fwcutter and firmware-b43-installer exist in the Ubuntu repositories, but you will need a working wired Internet connection in Ubuntu in order to locate it and install it.

The only way to do that - in your case - is to connect the pc to the wireless router using a LAN cable, instead of using wireless.

Then REBOOT your PC and retest wireless using NetworkManager.

Regards,

Mark

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John Kelly (lioganach) said : 		#6

thank you actionparsnip
thank you Mark Rijckenberg

John