Comment 11 for bug 395630

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^rooker (rooker) wrote :

It's not only no solution as Xavier says, but in my case I'm suffering from an unloadable "wl" module - *and* removing "linux-backports-modules-2.6.31-15-generic" did not work for me. :(

When trying to "modprobe wl", I get the following error in dmesg:
[quote]
wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[/quote]

Unfortunately, that's also the reason why it's not even possible to *try* the proprietary broadcom STA-driver, suggested by Jockey.

(Well, I've learned not to trust Dell anymore: I've begged them to give me hardware that would *not* be a pain-in-the-ass with GNU/Linux and they gave me a 4312 chipset. *sigh*)

Any ideas/updates on this broadcom driver issue? There are currently too many HowTos for Karmic & b43xx-chipsets, everyone suggesting something different...