{"id":1241,"date":"2015-12-20T16:37:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T16:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2015-12-20T16:58:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-20T16:58:04","slug":"install-b43-fwcutter-wireless-driver-in-ubuntu-14-mint-17-without-internet-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/?p=1241","title":{"rendered":"Install B43-fwcutter wireless driver in Ubuntu 14 \/ Mint 17 without internet access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You will need to download the files required from a PC \/ laptop that is connected to the internet, then transfer them via USB or CD etc.<\/p>\n<p>1) Download b43-fwcutter deb package from <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/b43-fwcutter\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/b43-fwcutter<\/a><br \/>\nDouble click the package to install<\/p>\n<p>2) Download the driver from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lwfinger.com\/b43-firmware\/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.lwfinger.com\/b43-firmware\/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>3) Open a terminal, navigate to the folder where you downloaded the file and issue the following commands<\/p>\n<pre>tar xfvj broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2\r\nsudo b43-fwcutter -w \/lib\/firmware broadcom-wl-5.100.138\/linux\/wl_apsta.o<\/pre>\n<p>If your card is supported by more than one driver then use the modprobe command to test the drivers. First unload all conflicting drivers (this includes removing the driver you&#8217;re trying to install): <\/p>\n<pre>sudo modprobe -r b43 bcma\r\nsudo modprobe -r brcmsmac bcma\r\nsudo modprobe -r wl<\/pre>\n<p>To load a specific driver use one of the following commands: <\/p>\n<pre>sudo modprobe b43\r\nsudo modprobe brcmsmac\r\nsudo modprobe wl<\/pre>\n<p>Allow several seconds for the network manager to scan for available networks before attempting a connection. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You will need to download the files required from a PC \/ laptop that is connected to the internet, then transfer them via USB or CD etc. 1) Download b43-fwcutter deb package from https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/b43-fwcutter Double click the package to install 2) Download the driver from http:\/\/www.lwfinger.com\/b43-firmware\/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2 3) Open a terminal, navigate to the folder where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,131],"tags":[289,290,291,59,7,177,179],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-ubuntu-linux","tag-b43","tag-broadcom","tag-cutter","tag-firmware","tag-ubuntu","tag-wifi","tag-wireless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scunster.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}