How To: Broadcom 1390 Wireless on Ubuntu Hardy

Ubuntu Hardy has made wireless a little easier for laptop owners w/ the broadcom 1390 chipset. No more fucking around with ndiswrapper; just install a package, run a script, and you’re done. Installing the package should do the trick, but for some reason it failed for me (the firmware didn’t download), so you’ll probably need to run the second part too.


sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
sudo /usr/share/b43-fwcutter/install_bcm43xx_firmware.sh
sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart

You’re done. You’re welcome.

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Comments (5)

  1. John wrote::

    Thank you.

    Saturday, June 14, 2008 at 8:24 am #
  2. inspiron wrote::

    THANK YOU!!

    Sunday, June 22, 2008 at 7:36 pm #
  3. k-das wrote::

    Thanks that was great,simple, and best of all WORKS!!

    Thursday, July 10, 2008 at 4:15 pm #
  4. Vince wrote::

    THANKS! After hours of searching, jerking around with NDISWrapper and fwcutter. Perfect!

    Thursday, October 2, 2008 at 5:27 pm #
  5. Matt wrote::

    AWESOME! After spending a day literally fucking around with all the other shit out there, those 3 lines of code fixed my problem!

    Friday, May 1, 2009 at 9:23 am #