Broadcom wireless adapter can't detect network
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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bcmwl (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
There seem to be a regression with bcmwl-kernel-source in natty. After upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04 my wireless network wasn't detected anymore even though I could see other networks. Downgrading to bcmwl-kernel-
It seems that other people have this problem and use the same workaround, as you can see in the comments at http://
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
$ sudo apt-cache policy bcmwl-kernel-source
bcmwl-kernel-
Installed: 5.60.48.
Candidate: 5.100.82.
Version table:
5.
500 http://
*** 5.60.48.
100 /var/lib/
Version 5.100.82.
My wireless adapter info:
$ sudo lshw -C network
[sudo] password for al:
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
logical name: eth1
version: 01
serial: 00:26:5e:1c:87:1f
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
resources: irq:17 memory:
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: bcmwl-kernel-source 5.60.48.
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 9 19:04:11 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: bcmwl
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-09-03 (5 days ago)
description: | updated |
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