Broadcom wifi on Dell Vostro 1510 stoped working after 9.04-9.10 upgrade
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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bcmwl (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
STA driver is activated, but is not loaded.
Trying to load manually:
$ sudo modprobe wl
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.
FATAL: Error inserting wl (/lib/modules/
dmesg output:
[ 2375.353993] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_
[ 2375.353998] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_
Reinstallation of package goes OK, but gives no result:
Preparing to replace bcmwl-kernel-source 5.10.91.
Removing all DKMS Modules
Done.
Розпаковування заміни bcmwl-kernel-source ...
Налаштовування bcmwl-kernel-source (5.10.91.
Adding Module to DKMS build system
Doing initial module build
Installing initial module
Done.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Обробка тригерів для initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.
This bug can be duplicate of: Bug #468820 , Bug #460066 , Bug #468820
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 8 12:42:51 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: bcmwl-kernel-source 5.10.91.
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=uk_UA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: bcmwl
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
Hi, just try to load lib80211 module by doing
sudo modprobe lib80211
and after that you should be able to load correctly wl module.
Hope your wifi connection works with this, mine doesn't, even with all modules loaded