Broadcom STA not working (at least BCM43228) without patch

[Dec]

I use a BCM43228 card in my laptop. I installed the broadcom-sta package from the repos and ended up with no wifi at all.

The day before I used it under Fedora 23, which uses the latest version of the driver: https://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/hybrid-v35_64-nodebug-pcoem-6_30_223_271.tar.gz

So I removed the ubuntu package, downloaded the sources from broadcom, compiled it myself, installed it and loaded the module. But still no wifi.

I checked the Fedora 23 sources and saw that they applied a patch for kernel versions >= 4.3, which you can find here: https://github.com/rpmfusion/wl-kmod/blob/master/wl-kmod-004_kernel_4.3_rdtscl_to_rdtsc.patch

I applied the patch, recompiled, reinstalled, reloaded and now it works.

Please add the patch to the ubuntu package.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for broadcom-sta (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]