installation failed of Broadcoam STA Wireless proprietary drive

[Naveen Agarwal]

Description: Ubuntu natty (development branch)
Release: 11.04

I have just started testing Ubuntu natty and got a wireless driver installation problem.
I tried to install the Broadcom STA wireless driver using additional driver option.During installation I got "SYSTEM error :InstallArchives()failed.
I had expected the driver to get installed instead I got failure in doing so.

I had similar problem in " Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS" but got it solved using this link --"https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx?highlight=%28ManufacturerModel%29|%28AND%29#STA%20-%20No%20Internet%20access"
I am unable to follow the same steps in natty bcoz of the fact that bcml-kernel-source-package is already installed but still useless.

I also got bcml-kernel-source package crash report and have uploaded.I think the problem is with both jockey and bcml-kernel-source packages.

I am attaching some screen shots of the problem I faced.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: jockey-gtk 0.6-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-11.25-generic 2.6.37-rc7
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-11-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jan 1 14:22:48 2011
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20101229)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 1545
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LC_MESSAGES=en_AG.utf8
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8:en
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent file=/cdrom/preseed/hostname.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maybe-ubiquity
SourcePackage: jockey
dmi.bios.date: 10/23/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A13
dmi.board.name: 0U315R
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA13:bd10/23/2009:svnDellInc.:pnInspiron1545:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0U315R:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 1545
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Tom Wright (twright-tdw)]

I have been experiencing the same issue (on up-to-date 64bit Natty). It seems that the error is due to the use of init_MUTEX in one of the sources files (make.log will contain the full details) when the function was not in scope (sorry I do not still have the exact messages). I managed to get it working by commenting out this line and rebuilding the module.