[Broadcom BCM43142, BCM4313] STA wireless driver failed to activate on 12.04.4

[Yung Shen]

Failed to finish driver activation correctly, installing broadcom wireless driver by using Addtional Drivers (Jockey) cannot be finished, because wl seems not correctly built.

To verify this issu, execute the same steps in bug 1279690 .

Also tired out the patch in bug 1173761 ,and following steps in comment #55 and #58 [0], still not fixing the problem.

Affected devices:
BCM43142 [14e4:4365],
BCM4313 [14e4:4727]

[0] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1173761/comments/58

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: bcmwl-kernel-source 6.20.155.1+bdcom-0ubuntu0.0.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-15.25~precise1-generic 3.11.10
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-15-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 4 04:27:30 2014
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20140204)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: bcmwl
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Yung Shen (kaxing)]

Same issue happend on system with BCM4313 [14e4:4727], also sighted in 13.04( bug 1097519 ) and 12.04.1( bug 1220504 ).

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

According to the log, the module was built:

First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building only for 3.11.0-15-generic
Building for architecture x86_64
Building initial module for 3.11.0-15-generic
Done.

wl:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.11.0-15-generic/updates/dkms/

depmod....

DKMS: install completed.

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

the following line is what's failing:
unbind/rebind on driver /sys/module/wl/drivers/pci:wl:

which calls driver_bind, and ultimately pci_device_probe, which then dies (as per the backtrace)

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Here are a few more clues from the first apport file:

NetworkManager[1220]: <info> (eth1): new 802.11 WiFi device (driver: 'wl' ifindex: 3)

NetworkManager[1220]: <info> (eth1): deactivating device (reason 'managed') [2]

NetworkManager[1220]: <info> (eth1): device state change: disconnected -> unmanaged (reason 'removed') [30 10 36]

NetworkManager[1220]: <info> radio killswitch /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.1/0000:04:00.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill1 disappeared

wpa_supplicant[1357]: Could not read interface eth1 flags: No such device

Apparently NetworkManager deactivates the device for some reason. I'm not familiar with NetworkManager, let's ask an expert.

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

@Mathieu: any ideas on this issue?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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