My parents recently got a Dell Inspiron 6400, and asked for Kubuntu to be installed on it. This is all well and good until it comes to wireless support for this laptop. The 6400 uses the fairly recent Broadcom 4300 chipset, which is apparently well supported with ndiswrapper, but not so with non-ndiswrapper systems.
After some researching, I discovered the bcm43xx fwcutter is supposed to be the best option to get a working firmware file into /lib/firmware/. Unfortunately the bcm43xx-fwcutter package for Ubuntu Feisty has a hardcoded url into for downloading the firmware package. And that URL results in a 404… great.
Further googling reveals Maxxer.it, who has a link to a working wl_apsta.o tarball. Simply extract the tarball, and place the contents into /lib/firmware/`uname -r`/ I’ve put a copy of the tarball on this website for future use…
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