broadcom wireless adapter disappears after reboot
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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bcmwl (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Used Updater to install additional drivers for my Broadcom wireless. It worked at first but when I booted up the next day the wifi icon was gone as if I had to wifi adapter at all.
my specs:
lspci -nn -d 14e4:
04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:432b] (rev 01)
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This Below is what happens when I tried a fix that was suggested:
sudo apt install bcmwl-kernel-source
[sudo] password for anansi:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
bcmwl-kernel-source is already the newest version (6.30.223.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libfprint-2-tod1 libllvm10
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up bcmwl-kernel-source (6.30.223.
Removing old bcmwl-6.
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Deleting module version: 6.30.223.271+bdcom
completely from the DKMS tree.
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Done.
Loading new bcmwl-6.
Building for 5.8.0-41-generic
Building for architecture x86_64
Building initial module for 5.8.0-41-generic
ERROR: Cannot create report: [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/crash/
urce.0.crash'
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.8.0-41-generic (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/
on.
dpkg: error processing package bcmwl-kernel-source (--configure):
installed bcmwl-kernel-source package post-installation script subprocess retur
ned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
bcmwl-
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Heeelp!
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: bcmwl-kernel-source 6.30.223.
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-41-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-
Architecture: amd64
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CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Jan 31 08:27:11 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-01-27 (4 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: bcmwl
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.