We need an FWcutter deb for broadcom wireless

[mikeycal]

Well it appears that while we have support for the BCM43xx wireless chipset in dapper we don't have firmware (legal reasons...)-- so the wireless chipset won't work without using the FWcutter fireware extraction utility. But, Ubuntu doesn't appear to supply a prebuilt fwcutter deb package. a fwcutter deb in one of the repositories would be a time saver.

[askrieger]

Re: We need an FWcutter deb for broadcom wireless

Have you added universe and multiverse? Have you tried the debian unstable repository? It's bound to be somewhere.

[mikeycal]

Re: We need an FWcutter deb for broadcom wireless

It's not in Main, Universe or Multiverse.

I just thought it would be logical for it to be in an official ubuntu repo -- haven't looked in any of the Debian unstable repos.

Have you added universe and multiverse? Have you tried the debian unstable repository? It's bound to be somewhere.

[awakatanka]

Re: We need an FWcutter deb for broadcom wireless

Well it appears that while we have support for the BCM43xx wireless chipset in dapper we don't have firmware (legal reasons...)-- so the wireless chipset won't work without using the FWcutter fireware extraction utility. But, Ubuntu doesn't appear to supply a prebuilt fwcutter deb package. a fwcutter deb in one of the repositories would be a time saver.

I second that, its a real need.