bcmwl fails to blacklist brcm80211 so is never used
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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bcmwl (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
In Additional Drivers, install "Broadcom STA wireless driver". This installs the "wl" kernel module.
However in natty beta 1 I notice the wl module is not being used at all in network manager Connection Information. Instead it is using module "brcm80211".
It seems that bcmwl-kernel-source should blacklist module brcm80211 but doesn't. It already blacklists b43 et al in /etc/modprobe.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: bcmwl-kernel-source 5.100.82.
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 1 13:52:55 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110330)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: bcmwl
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Related branches
tags: | added: patch |
Changed in bcmwl (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
milestone: | none → ubuntu-11.04 |
status: | New → Triaged |
In case it is not obvious to the reader, a fix/workaround is: d/blacklist- bcrm80211. conf
sudo echo "blacklist brcm80211" > /etc/modprobe.