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broadcom-sta-dkms 6.30.223.271-2: broadcom-sta kernel module failed to build

Bug #1783112 reported by Artem Kurylev on 2018-07-23

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1757008: Broadcom wireless drivers failed to build [error: implicit declaration of function ‘init_timer’]. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	broadcom-sta (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

There is an error during installing wifi driver, but driver is working for now

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: broadcom-sta-dkms 6.30.223.271-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-29.31~16.04.1-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-29-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.18
Architecture: i386
DKMSKernelVersion: 4.15.0-29-generic
Date: Sat Jul 21 19:51:25 2018
DuplicateSignature: dkms:broadcom-sta-dkms:6.30.223.271-2:/var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:2352:2: error: implicit declaration of function ‘init_timer’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-11-03 (261 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release i386 (20170801)
PackageArchitecture: all
PackageVersion: 6.30.223.271-2
RelatedPackageVersions:
dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1.4
apt 1.2.27
SourcePackage: broadcom-sta
Title: broadcom-sta-dkms 6.30.223.271-2: broadcom-sta kernel module failed to build
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Artem Kurylev (artikot) wrote on 2018-07-23:

DKMSBuildLog.txt Edit (4.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Apport retracing service (apport) on 2018-07-23

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2018-07-24:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1757008, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.