Comment 119 for bug 732677

Hi Christian;

For me the b43 installer in the repos does the trick. One must also
manually turn on the wifi with the Fn-key switch.

As pointes out above the version numbers in the title may not be current;
there are also many related bugs (although I disagree which are
duplicates); and the "real problem" appears to be that whatever code
decides which driver to use is jncorrect.

Also, for awhile at least the non-working driver was causing the whole
networking stack to crash though I think that is not the case in 13.10.

For clarity I have an inspiron 1501 with the b43 driver running fine on the
4311 device.

Chris Hermansen
On 2013-10-30 9:26 PM, "Christian S." <email address hidden> wrote:

> What is the state here?
>
> This issue still exists with a fresh install of 12.04.3 and 13.10. The
> default used driver is bcmwl but bcm4311 does not work with it.
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> bcmwl 5.100.82.38+bdcom-0ubuntu2 not work on BCM4311/4312
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