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linux-lts-trusty package

  1. Bug #1247712
  2. Comment #58

Comment 58 for bug 1247712

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Po-Hsu Lin (cypressyew) wrote : Re: Unable to install Broadcom STA wireless dirver on 3.8 / 3.11 kernel via jockey-gtk

Verified on:
201206-11158 with Broadcom 43228 [14e4:4359]
201302-12682 with Broadcom 43228 [14e4:4359]
201108-8942 with Broadcom 43227 [14e4:4358]
201012-6925 with Broadcom 4313 [14e4:4727]

Steps:
1. Install 12.04.4, enable proposed, run update and reboot.
2. Install the Broadcom driver via jockey

VERIFICATION DONE
Driver installation complete successfully

But for
201307-13942 with Broadcom 4352 [14e4:43b1]
201307-13942 with Broadcom 4352 [14e4:43b1]

From jockey.log, it will stuck on:
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.11.0-20-generic

And error messages could be found in dmesg
[ 344.878100] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffffa05a1020>] [<ffffffffa05a1020>] wdev_priv.part.7+0x4/0x6 [wl]
...(see attachment)

There is a bug for this component [14e4:43b1], #1279690, since the error message is different from what I posted in the bug description, maybe this is another issue?