jockey failed to install Broadcom B43 wireless driver

Bug #595344 reported by Erik B. Andersen
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
jockey (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Martin Pitt
Maverick
Fix Released
Medium
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

I installed the maverick daily image from around the tenth of July from usb. When I restarted into it for the first time, I went to install the Broadcom B43 wireless driver through jockey, and it seemed like it was going to work, ie it showed the progress bar and said it was downloading and installing, but then an error message came up that said that the install failed and that I should check /var/log/jockey.log (If I remember that correctly). This bug could be a duplicate of bug 546652, but that bug has little info and was reported against gedit, so I will file this bug separately.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: jockey-gtk 0.5.8-0ubuntu8.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-2.3-generic 2.6.35-rc2
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-2-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 16 18:11:21 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha amd64 (20100613)
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:0039 Microsoft Corp. IntelliMouse Optical
 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
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard Presario F500 (GF606UA#ABA)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-2-generic root=UUID=a6cf49fd-a93d-449f-bf61-f66ee4a52d13 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: jockey
dmi.bios.date: 12/05/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.1F
dmi.board.name: 30D3
dmi.board.vendor: Quanta
dmi.board.version: 65.3A
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Quanta
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.1F:bd12/05/2007:svnHewlett-Packard:pnPresarioF500(GF606UA#ABA):pvrRev1:rvnQuanta:rn30D3:rvr65.3A:cvnQuanta:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Presario F500 (GF606UA#ABA)
dmi.product.version: Rev 1
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

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Erik B. Andersen (azendale) wrote :
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Stenten (stenten) wrote :

Could possibly be due to this message in dmesg:
[ 14.073974] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode13.fw" not found
[ 14.074002] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode13.fw" not found
[ 14.074018] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.
[ 14.080422] type=1505 audit(1276711578.767:14): operation="profile_load" pid=1049 name="/usr/sbin/tcpdump"
[ 14.938795] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode13.fw" not found
[ 14.938826] b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43-open/ucode13.fw" not found
[ 14.938841] b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the correct firmware for this driver version. Please carefully read all instructions on this website.

Changed in jockey (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Could be a b43-fwcutter change, jockey needs to install extra binaries

Changed in jockey (Ubuntu Maverick):
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Martin Pitt (pitti)
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

cf the duplicate for extra details about the previous comment

Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in jockey (Ubuntu Maverick):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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SabreWolfy (sabrewolfy) wrote :

Confirmed in Maverick Beta. B43 installation failed. Installing the other (proprietary) suggested driver (STA?) worked, so I'm using that one.

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SabreWolfy (sabrewolfy) wrote :

jockey.log for reference. I don't know where the b43 stuff ends and the other one starts...

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SabreWolfy (sabrewolfy) wrote :
Martin Pitt (pitti)
Changed in jockey (Ubuntu Maverick):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
milestone: none → ubuntu-10.10
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

jockey (0.5.10-0ubuntu3) maverick; urgency=low

  * Add support for bypassing local detection for search_driver(). (Merged
    from trunk). Thanks to Till Kamppeter for the initial patches!
  * jockey/ui.py: Ubuntu does not currently support local printer driver
    handlers, so speed up the lookup of remote ones by disabling local
    detection of hardware/handlers in search_driver() if we are looking for a
    printer driver. (Note that this is a hack, but the speedup is significant)
    (LP: #574396)
  * Add OSLib.notify_reboot_required() and call it in set_handler_enabled().
    Merged from trunk, and add Ubuntu specific implementation using
    /usr/share/update-notifier/notify-reboot-required in OSLib. (LP: #570215)
  * data/handlers/b43.py: Install firmware-b43-installer package instead of
    b43-fwcutter. (LP: #595344)

 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 15 Sep 2010 13:35:48 +0200

Changed in jockey (Ubuntu Maverick):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Laryllan (laryllan) wrote :

Driver still doesn't work.

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Ryan Lines (hardran3) wrote :

Still broken in an updated maverick beta.

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FriedChicken (domlyons) wrote :

Take a look at http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jockey/+bug/613655/comments/3

b43-fwcutter and firmware-b43-installer are *both* needed!

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 595344] Re: jockey failed to install Broadcom B43 wireless driver

FriedChicken [2010-09-26 18:38 -0000]:
> b43-fwcutter and firmware-b43-installer are *both* needed!

Yes, but firmware-b43-installer has a Dependency on b43-fwcutter, so
they will be both installed. Can you please uninstall the driver in
Jockey, then install it using

  sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

and copy&paste the entire output? Does it work afterwards?

Thanks,

Martin

--
Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org)

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Stenten (stenten) wrote :

FYI, firmware-b43-installer is not included in the Maverick LiveCD, so you can no longer install the Broadcom wireless drivers using the LiveCD. I've opened a new bug report for this as Bug 653790.

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philipvs (philipvs) wrote :

philipvs@BETA:~$ sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
firmware-b43-installer is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up firmware-b43-installer (4.150.10.5-4) ...
Not supported low-power chip with PCI id 14e4:4315!
Aborting.
dpkg: error processing firmware-b43-installer (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 firmware-b43-installer
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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FriedChicken (domlyons) wrote :

Did you try "firmware-b43-lpphy-installer", too? I think this package is for low-power chips.

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