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I am trying to get my wifi or ethernet connection to work on Ubuntu 10.04. Neither will. I therefor have no internet access. There seems to be driver issue.

From what I've seen, the first step to resolving this is to install b43-fwcutter. Multiple sources state this, including the "official docs" about such.

Here's the problem - when I attempt this installation it fails because it apparently requires internet access! It uses wget in it's process. Why? How do I skip that? It's trying to get the file wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o from a remote source. I have that file locally. I thought that am supposed to install that with b43-fwcutter AFTER b43-fwcutter is installed first?

COMMAND:

sudo dpkg -i /media/UBUNTUSB/pool/main/b/b43-fwcutter/*

RESULT:

(Reading database ... 122496 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace b43-fwcutter 1:012-1build1 (using .../b43-fwcutter_012-1build1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement b43-fwcutter ...
Setting up b43-fwcutter (1:012-1build1) ...
--2017-03-29 10:43:33--  http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
Resolving downloads.openwrt.org... failed: Name or service not known.
wget: unable to resolve host address `downloads.openwrt.org'
dpkg: error processing b43-fwcutter (--install):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 4
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 b43-fwcutter

*BTW: I'm pretty sure firmware-b43-installer is not an option on Ubuntu v10.

BuvinJ
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Try using the file manager to dig into the deb file and pull out the b43-fwcutter binary. That's the file you want. It's in the data.tar.xz usr/bin directory in the deb.

Your posted example was trying to install the .deb file, not running the executable. What error did the executable give and what driver file did you give it?

Not all firmware versions are supported by b43-fwcutter. Run it on the driver file you have (the windows driver bcmlw.sys file for example with the -i switch to identify what version your driver is. Then run the b43-f2cutter with the -l switch to see what versions are supported.

ubfan1
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