Ubuntu
bcmwl package

  1. Bug #1156138
  2. Comment #33

Comment 33 for bug 1156138

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Brian Burch (brian-pingtoo) wrote :

I upgraded my dell laptop to 13.10 ubuntu-studio about 2 weeks ago, which uses kernel 3.11.0-15.8-lowlatency.

I just assumed that dkms was building and using my locally-patched driver. I have just checked and discovered I was mistaken... it is using the distro package bcmwl-kernel-source version 6.30.223.141+bdcom-0ubuntu1.

I can see 0001-MODULE_LICENSE.patch still defines a Mixed/Proprietary License, so it seems someone has altered the GPL kernel source restrictions. My thanks to whoever did that! It has released quite a few users from having to maintain their own dkms source.

As far as I am concerned, this bug can be marked as fixed in 13.10.

Good news!

Brian