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bcmwl package

wifi not working due to bcmwl-kernel-source

Bug #1896348 reported by guillermo zuloaga on 2020-09-19

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1878045: doing dist-upgrade got error related do Broadcom . Edit Remove

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This bug affects 7 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	bcmwl (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

wifi not working

installed bcmwl-kernel-source package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 6

Errors were encountered while processing:
bcmwl-kernel-source
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:20.10.11
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-18.19-generic 5.8.4
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu45
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CrashDB: ubuntu
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Sep 19 18:07:20 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-09-18 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: release-upgrade
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to groovy on 2020-09-19 (0 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeXorgFixuplog:
INFO:root:/usr/bin/do-release-upgrade running
INFO:root:No xorg.conf, exiting

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guillermo zuloaga (gazmito22) wrote on 2020-09-19:

#1

CurrentDmesg.txt.txt Edit (76.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (2.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (744 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (290 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeAptHistorylog.txt Edit (125.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeAptclonesystemstate.tar.gz Edit (436.0 KiB, application/x-gzip)
VarLogDistupgradeAptlog.txt Edit (38.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.txt Edit (298.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeLspcitxt.txt Edit (1.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
VarLogDistupgradeMainlog.txt Edit (74.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2020-09-21:

#2

From Apttermlog:

Setting up bcmwl-kernel-source (6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu6) ...
Loading new bcmwl-6.30.223.271+bdcom DKMS files...
Building for 5.4.0-47-generic 5.8.0-18-generic
Building for architecture x86_64
Building initial module for 5.4.0-47-generic
ERROR (dkms apport): kernel package linux-headers-5.4.0-47-generic is not supported
Error! Application of patch 0028-add-support-for-linux-5.6.patch failed.
Check /var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.30.223.271+bdcom/build/ for more information.
dpkg: error processing package bcmwl-kernel-source (--configure):
installed bcmwl-kernel-source package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 6

affects:

ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) → bcmwl (Ubuntu)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2020-09-23:

#3

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in bcmwl (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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satmandu (satadru-umich) wrote on 2020-09-24:

#4

The problem is due to 0028-add-support-for-linux-5.6.patch having many of a/src/src/... instead of a/src/...

Fixing that patch solves this for me.

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satmandu (satadru-umich) wrote on 2020-09-24:

#5

Fix also mentioned here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/1878045/comments/7

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Yann (yourfrenchman) wrote on 2020-09-24:

#6

The above link made it work for me ! Thanks for it !

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