Comment 32 for bug 732677

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

The bcmwl-kernel-source package should have installed a very similar workaround as above when it installed. If your /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-bcm43.conf is missing something like this at the end:

    blacklist b44
    install wl modprobe -r b43 b44 b43legacy ssb; modprobe --ignore-install wl; modprobe --ignore-install b44

Then you should add it to the end of the file.

I know the blacklist file is meant to be removed when the package is removed, but I recently noticed it's not actually removed/upgraded correctly when bcmwl-kernel-source is upgraded. So if you've;
  * had some version of that package installed since before 2009-06-19; or
  * if you for some reason didn't have b44 loaded when the package was being installed; or
  * if you had a lingering blacklist-bcm43.conf for any reason before the package was installed;
then you will be missing the above workaround Alberto introduced in 2009.

Hope it works for you...