No WiFi after 'Install Upgrades' on start menu

[richardgillian]

Thanks very much for the detailed, clear instructions.

lspci -vnn -d  14e4:
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5705M Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:165d] (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Dell Latitude D400 [1028:865d]
    Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
    Memory at faff0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
    Expansion ROM at <ignored> [disabled]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: tg3
    Kernel modules: tg3

02:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4324] (rev 03)
    Subsystem: Dell Truemobile 1450 MiniPCI [1028:0003]
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
    Memory at fafee000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
    Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
    Kernel modules: ssb

So I have PCI:ID 4324 and chip 4306 ... rev 03

In the table


14e4:4324    yes (b43legacy)    BCM4306  a/b/g  G (r1)
                        yes                          BCM4306/3 a/b/g G (r5)

so probably b43

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
(accepted defaults to retain locally modified /etc/issue etc)

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

This aborted (see full text attached), so I tried

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43legacy-installer b43-fwcutter

which apparently succeeded (again, see full text attached)

After a reboot, the wicd app reported 'no networks', so I plugged in the ethernet cable and started typing.

Many thanks again



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