Offline Wifi Install - Possible?

[type3]

Hi all, I'm trying to get a fresh install of Kubuntu onto a wireless network. My card uses a Broadcom chip and with earlier Kubuntu versions I've used Ndiswrapper. With Gutsy it looks like you can use fwcutter. I've tried following the offline instructions here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi.../bcm43xx/Gutsy

I tried installing fwcutter via the .deb file and it gave an error as it depends on a newer version libc6. I got a copy of that, tried installing but that has dependencies and so on...

Is there an easy way of doing this or should I just bite the bullet and get all the updates with an ethernet cable plugged in? How come the restricted driver manager isn't installed by default? Is there a way to get it off the Kubuntu install cd?

Thanks.

[type3]

Re: Offline Wifi Install - Possible?

Tried compiling ndiswrapper but it exited with error code 2. Next stop is moving the machine nearer the router to plug in a cable to get the updates and correct packages. Seems a shame not to be able to do this out of the box.