Ubuntu
bcmwl package

  1. Bug #1156138
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 1156138

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Brian Burch (brian-pingtoo) wrote :

It looks if events are preceeding me, but here is what I've found so far:

1. The earlier comments about using a custom kernel are just a red herring. I build a custom kernel using the standard lowlatency configuration and (not surprisingly) the bcmwl dkms module failed to compile.

2. A diff between the distro /boot/config-3.8.0-27-lowlatency and config-3.8.0-27-generic shows VERY few changes, mainly PREEMPT stuff and (probably) consequential LOCK variables - see attachment for full diff.

3. I built my custom kernel from the distro source package, not git. I intend to hack the patch proposed in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lowlatency/+bug/1154036 (posted in march 2013!!) and try to apply it to my kernel source.