bcm4312 not properly handled by jockey

[Stuart Read]

Upon upgrade to lucid, wireless for my bcm4312 no longer works. While there are probably some workarounds, people with this chipset (i.e. Dell Mini 10v) should have a seamless upgrade experience. This means: it still just works after upgrade.

If this is not possible, jockey should popup (as it does for other things) to suggest the installation of the appropriate firmware/driver/whatever. Clicking on the "Activate" button then installs the correct drivers, prompting the user to connect to the internet through other means if they are not connected.

I tried launching jockey myself but it just said the activation failed and pointed me to a log file /var/log/jockey.log :

2010-02-03 21:47:21,538 WARNING: modinfo for module wl failed: ERROR: modinfo: could not find module wl
2010-02-03 21:47:21,540 WARNING: /sys/module/wl/drivers does not exist, cannot rebind wl driver
2010-02-03 21:47:21,617 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled, bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: blacklisted, b43legacy: blacklisted

Clearly this is not an optimal experience.
(I wouldn't mind a pointer towards the correct way to get wireless working for this chip, but work-arounds are not what this bug is about. Please email me seperately).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Feb 3 22:00:03 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 1011
Package: jockey-common 0.5.6-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-12-generic root=UUID=38409fc5-d0ed-44e2-bb76-7f3ef8031bfc ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-12.16-generic
SourcePackage: jockey
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-12-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 03/20/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A00
dmi.board.name: CN0Y53
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: A00
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA00:bd03/20/2009:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron1011:pvrA00:rvnDellInc.:rnCN0Y53:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvrA00:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 1011
dmi.product.version: A00
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Stuart Read (sread)]

As of Feb 7th, this is fixed. Thanks.