Ubuntu 10.10 Installation disc not recognized by apt-get command
I am trying to install the Broadcom wireless driver BCM4311 on my Acer Extensa 5420. I have consulted several help forums and tried several suggested ways of doing it. They all seem to require using b43-fwcutter, and my Ubuntu 10.10 installation always refuses to fetch it from the installation disk. The most straight-forward approach I have tried is as follows:
1. From the console, I type: sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter 2. The command works for a while, then responds by asking me put the disc labelled " Ubuntu 10.10_Maverick Meerkat_ - Release i386 (20101007)" into the CD-ROM drive and press ENTER. 3. I insert the installation disc containing the installation program that I downloaded from the Ubuntu web site into the drive and press ENTER, but just get the same request again. The file on the installation disc is named "Ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso", and the disk does not have a label. I have tried renaming the installation file with the intention of burning a new disc that would be recognized, but the name being requested is not a valid file name for Windows (so I can't do it on a Windows machine), and it also seems to be inappropriate for Ubuntu (it has spaces and may be too long). I also tried keeping the same file name and burning a disc with the requested label, but the burning software would not accept such a long label. Is there some other way for me to get the installation disk recognized? Or another way to get the wireless card operating? |
You can take the Ubuntu install disk out of the equation and go directly to the Ubuntu repository for b43-fwcutter. Look at your /etc/apt/sources.list. At the top of the file, there is an entry telling apt to search the install cd, followed by a listing of apt repositories. As root, edit that file by adding a # at the beginning of that line to comment out that line. Apt will then ignore it and go to the repositories looking for fw-cutter.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install b43-cutter should then work to install the package. Quote:
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Downloading and burning a new installation file solved the problem. Looking into the sources list was instructive for me, but did not help because I don't have internet access on that machine.
Thanks for your help. |
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