Re: Airport gone

[G 3 <programmingkidx@gmail.com>]

On Jun 9, 2016, at 6:51 PM, Riccardo Mottola wrote:

> Hi,
>
> as I wrote a little while ago, I had issues with Airport on my  
> iBook G3.
> Now I installed several updates, including kernel and others... I  
> reboot and notice that I have no airport at all!
> I don't see it mentioned in dmesg, nor does ifconfig/iwconfig show  
> any.
>
> $ lspci
> 0000:00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Inc. UniNorth AGP
> 0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices,  
> Inc. [AMD/ATI] Device 4c4e (rev 64)
> 0001:10:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Inc. UniNorth PCI
> 0001:10:17.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Apple Inc. KeyLargo Mac I/O  
> (rev 02)
> 0001:10:18.0 USB controller: Apple Inc. KeyLargo USB
> 0001:10:19.0 USB controller: Apple Inc. KeyLargo USB
> 0002:20:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Inc. UniNorth Internal PCI
> 0002:20:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Inc. UniNorth GMAC (Sun GEM)
>
>
> this is my lspci! where is my card? I don't remember if it would  
> show up in lspci, but at least in dmesg!
>
> Did it fry? did the mad firmware break it? a different kernel issue?
> I though resetting OpenFirmware but I wonder if then booting will  
> still work.
>
> Riccardo

This happens to me so much that I have to keep these directions and  
the firmware file on hand at all times.

This is what fixes things for me:

sudo dpkg -i linux-firmware-nonfree_1.14ubuntu1_all.deb

sudo modprobe -r b43 && sudo modprobe b43

Here is the file: http://ftp.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/multiverse/l/ 
linux-firmware-nonfree/linux-firmware-nonfree_1.14ubuntu1_all.deb