Unable to activate Broadcom b43 after STA driver
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
jockey (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
|
Low
|
Martin Pitt | ||
Karmic |
Won't Fix
|
Medium
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
This bug report became very noisy, the biggest part of it is already fixed, and loads of unrelated issues were reported. This bug report is about not showing the "b43" driver in Jockey any more once the STA driver has been enabled. This is due to the STA driver blacklisting 43, so that Jockey does not "see" it any more. If you have a different problem, please report a new bug!
WORKAROUND: Disable STA, reboot, run jockey again. This will show b43 again, which you can then activate. (Note that STA is highly recommended)
Original (obsolete) bug description:
Karmic Beta, Macbook Pro 5,1, Linux medusa 2.6.31-11-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 2 11:06:40 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
When attempting to activate b43 driver, jockey disables input, acting as if it is busy. It never responds. When activating STA, jockey immediately returns, but the STA entry isn't marked as highlighted. lsmod shows b43 as loaded, but I have no wireless functions in net-man:
jfrorie@medusa:~$ lsmod | grep b43
b43 136552 0
ssb 40944 1 b43
mac80211 210104 1 b43
cfg80211 109144 2 b43,mac80211
led_class 5256 2 b43,applesmc
Attempting to load bcwml-kernel-source failed due the package not existing.
jfrorie@medusa:~$ sudo apt-get --reinstall install bcwml-kernel-source
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package bcwml-kernel-source
Possible duplicate of:
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ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct 5 09:57:32 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/jockey-gtk
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBookPro5,1
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: jockey-gtk 0.5.5-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitec
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: jockey
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64
dmi.bios.date: 02/03/09
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MBP51.88Z.
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: Mac-F42D86A9
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.board.version: Proto
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc
dmi.product.name: MacBookPro5,1
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.
Changed in jockey (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in jockey (Ubuntu Karmic): | |
assignee: | nobody → Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) |
Changed in jockey (Ubuntu Karmic): | |
assignee: | Canonical Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team) → Martin Pitt (pitti) |
Changed in jockey (Ubuntu Karmic): | |
status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
tags: |
added: karmic regression-release removed: regression-potential |
This problem all so exists on the Macbook Pro 5,5