Broadcom wifi on Dell Vostro 1510 stoped working after 9.04-9.10 upgrade

Bug #478241 reported by kol
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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.d/nvidia-kernel-nkc, it will be ignored in a future release.
FATAL: Error inserting wl (/lib/modules/2.6.31-14-generic/updates/dkms/wl.ko): Unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter (see dmesg)

dmesg output:
[ 2375.353993] wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops
[ 2375.353998] wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_get_crypto_ops

Reinstallation of package goes OK, but gives no result:
Preparing to replace bcmwl-kernel-source 5.10.91.9+bdcom-0ubuntu4 (using .../bcmwl-kernel-source_5.10.91.9+bdcom-0ubuntu4_i386.deb) ...
Removing all DKMS Modules
Done.
Розпаковування заміни bcmwl-kernel-source ...
Налаштовування bcmwl-kernel-source (5.10.91.9+bdcom-0ubuntu4) ...
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.img-2.6.31-14-generic

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
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: bcmwl-kernel-source 5.10.91.9+bdcom-0ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=uk_UA.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=uk_UA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: bcmwl
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

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kol (kol-cv) wrote :
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emas (emas80spam) wrote :

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

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