Ubuntu
broadcom-sta package

  1. Bug #990222
  2. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 990222

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Tommy Trussell (tommy-trussell) wrote : Broadcom BCM4313 Not Usable on Upgrade to 12.04 Precise

My apologies if I'm reporting against the wrong package.

Got wireless working again in my Acer Aspire One D260, with Broadcom BCM4313 driver. It has worked with only minor difficulty in prior versions of Ubuntu (often you have to connect it to Ethernet to download the driver, then in past releases you're good to go.),

TODAY I did a regular upgrade to 12.04 Precise (GUI tool via update-manager) and it left me without working wireless. The Broadcom-STA driver showed up in the "additional drivers" tool, but it won't install, with lots of strange messages in /var/log/jockey.log

I found a workable procedure at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1879096

Using that procedure:

1) removed a package -- I believe it was bcmwl-kernel-source

2) added two lines to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

blacklist bcma
blacklist brcm80211

3) installed:
bcmwl-kernel-source
broadcom-sta-common
broadcom-sta-source
firmware-b43-installer
(which drew in 11 other packages including b43-fwcutter)

Interestingly, during the installation some package (not sure which) coughed up a message with the PCI ID of the Broadcom BCM4313 -- 14e4:4727 -- and said it was aborting because that device isn't supported. And BCM4313 is conspicuously absent from the firmware-b43-installer package, so I bet that's the one that coughed.