Comments on: Ubuntu 9.04 on HP Compaq nx6125

By: Martin Webster

Martin Webster — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:32:27 +0000

Your laptop isn't an HP nx6125 and most probably doesn't use the Broadcom (B43) wlan card. Search Google, specifying the exact model, e.g. Compaq Presario c700, or visit the Ubuntu forum.

By: Luke

Luke — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:54:50 +0000

hi i’ve got a hp compaq presario and i am trying to get the HP WLAN working on it. there is a button on the laptop that (on windows xp and vista) would enable or disable the wlan. following your steps, everything went okay until “sudo ifconfig wlan up” which i then get:

wlan: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device.

I am new to ubuntu and i dont know how to get things to work.

By: Bob Cloninger

Bob Cloninger — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:21:12 +0000

Thanks! Your instructions worked well until:

$ sudo ifconfig wlan up

When I got an error message. While trying to diagnose the problem, the wireless net popped up asking for my login! Nothing like accidentally getting it right!

Thanks again!

- Bob

By: Della

Della — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:36:41 +0000

ok, seems to work properly now. many thanks!
i’ve also found this alternative method (i haven’t tried it yet but seems to be quite serious):
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#fw-b43-new
just in case anyone needs it

By: Martin Webster

Martin Webster — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:27:13 +0000

Okay, you need to remove b43-fwcutter and start over. Try the following:

$ sudo apt-get purge b43-fwcutter Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages will be REMOVED b43-fwcutter* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 115kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? (Reading database ... 178586 files and directories currently installed.) Removing b43-fwcutter ... Purging configuration files for b43-fwcutter ... Processing triggers for man-db ...
Now, update your sources:

$ sudo apt-get update

Finally, reinstall b43-fwcutter:

$ sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed b43-fwcutter 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 17.3kB of archives. After this operation, 115kB of additional disk space will be used. Get: 1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main b43-fwcutter 1:011-5 [17.3kB] Fetched 17.3kB in 0s (75.9kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package b43-fwcutter. (Reading database ... 178577 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking b43-fwcutter (from .../b43-fwcutter_1%3a011-5_amd64.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up b43-fwcutter (1:011-5) ...

Press enter to confirm that you want to fetch and extract the firmware. Let me know how it goes.

By: Della

Della — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:03:25 +0000

answering your first question: i’ve got a brand new 9.04 (before there was an old windows xp wich i totally erased)

here says the version is a 008… now, i think this is the problem, i’m wondering why apt-get installs this older version of the software…

By: Martin Webster

Martin Webster — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:43:30 +0000

Did you install a clean version of Ubuntu or upgrade to 9.04? What did you do to connect using wireless networking before? Let’s find out what version of b43-fwcutter you are using:

$ b43-fwcutter -v b43-fwcutter version 011

What version do you have installed?

By: Della

Della — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:20:58 +0000

hi, thanks for this post, it has been really helpful.but i’ve got a problem: after the typing of second code begins the installation of b43-fwcutter and the download of the driver etc etc.. at a certain point b43-fwcutter begins to extract the driver from broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5 but suddenly it stops and returns error, this is the log:
[here there are a lot of lines like the following] broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/shared/sromstubs.c broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/shared/xip.lds.in Cannot open input file --unsupported dpkg: error processing b43-fwcutter (--configure): the subprocess post-installation script has returned an error code 2 the errors occurred while processing: b43-fwcutter E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

any idea?
thank you