b43 driver in Ubuntu (and also Debian)

[Ma Xiaojun]

I have questions on two levels.

The first is about "b43-fwcutter" meta-package.
Pseudo binary package, firmware-b43-installer's postinst is still
using firmware for kernel below 3.2.
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/raring/b43-fwcutter/raring/view/head:/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#Other_distributions_not_mentioned_above

As you compare the script and the upstream page, you may note that
BCM4331 is said to be supported in upstream page (true as my laptop
has BCM4331 and I can use it) but the script still uses old firmware
regard BCM4331 as unsupported.
Old new though, anyone review the proposed patch?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/b43-fwcutter/+bug/912941
There are unanswered bug in Debian also.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=682427
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678258

The second is about jockey/u-d-commons.
As I skim through the source code, I haven't seen anything that
handles b43 installation.
I'm now using 12.04, Jockey gives me no hint on additional drivers.

On another two laptops I encountered that also have BCM wireless
chips, Jockey on 10.04 pops up for both STA driver b43 driver. On both
machine only b43 works.

So I'd like to ask why graphical tools don't try to help people on
installing b43, which is commonly needed today.