Comment 30 for bug 1112751

Amazing that after one year, this bug has not been fixed. I just had this problem affect me. I have two laptops, both of which worked fine for a very long time, over two years. Then I upgraded my wireless router, and suddenly DHCP stopped working, it would timeout. I read the instructions here about disabling the Broadcam driver and forcing the use of the brcmsmac driver instead, and both laptops work again. Seems like the wl driver should not be the default driver for ubuntu, or else it should be easier to switch between drivers.