Public bug reported: Binary package hint: b43-fwcutter
On our company network we need to use a proxy server (also for dns requests). The firmware-b43-installer seems to not to use the environment proxy setting (http_proxy) and fails: Problem u...@host:~$sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer ... Setting up firmware-b43-installer (4.150.10.5-4) ... --2010-12-01 11:21:55-- http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2 Resolving mirror2.openwrt.org... failed: Name or service not known. wget: unable to resolve host address `mirror2.openwrt.org' dpkg: error processing firmware-b43-installer (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 4 Errors were encountered while processing: firmware-b43-installer E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Download should work A wget on that url actually works. u...@host:~$wget http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2 Workaround set up proxychains and call apt-get like this: u...@host:~$sudo proxychains apt-get install firmware-b43-installer Extra info Don't think this is related but we use cntlm runing on localhost to connect/authenticate to the company proxy. ** Affects: b43-fwcutter (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Summary changed: - firmware-b43-installer fails when using proxy + firmware-b43-installer fails to use proxy server -- firmware-b43-installer fails to use proxy server https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/683630 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
