Broadcom STA driver not working on 2.6.31-14-generic kernel
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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bcmwl (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
On a June 2009 MacBook Pro, wifi does not work with a 2.6.31-14-generic kernel. It does work with 2.6.31-13-generic.
I tried "apt-get install --reinstall bcmwl-kernel-
The lspci entry is: 04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
/var/log/messages shows this, which is similar to what's reported in bug 395630:
wl: module license 'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel.
Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
wl: disagrees about version of symbol lib80211_
wl: Unknown symbol lib80211_
I do not see this in dmesg output after booting 2.6.31-13 (where wifi does work). I'm reporting this problem separately because bug 395630 was against an older kernel, whereas my problem first appeared with 2.6.31-14. Also, the older report did not have the "wl: disagrees about version" message.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov 18 14:49:55 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: bcmwl-kernel-source 5.10.91.
ProcEnviron:
LC_TIME=
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: bcmwl
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic i686
I can confirm this: the report is 100% accurate: 2.6.31-14 broke it, 2.6.31-13 works.