Comment 9 for bug 1156138

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Brian Burch (brian-pingtoo) wrote :

I was disappointed to find there was no activity on this problem for a week. It is hard to believe no-one knows of a circumvention.

I've not been able to use the wireless adapter ever since I "upgraded" my laptop to 13.04, and will need to use it tomorrow but will not have access to an ethernet link...

Fortunately, I am using ubuntu studio. It uses the low-latency kernel, but I had forgotten the distro also installs and maintains the generic kernel. I rebooted with 3.8.0-26-generic and was very happy to discover the dkms source compiled cleanly. The machine is running fine on wifi with the generic kernel.

So what is it about the low-latency kernel headers that is different to generic, and also breaks the compile of bcmwl-kernel-source? Surely it isn't necessary?