installer chooses wrong wireless driver

[Bob Harold]

On my Compaq v6310us, with:
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
the installer (and the live dvd) chooses the "Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA wireless driver" which does not work.
The proper driver is "B43-fwcutter".
(The Fedora installer chooses the proper driver.)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: ubiquity (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.33-generic-pae 3.2.12
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.95-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 31 14:22:04 2012
InstallCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz noprompt cdrom-detect/try-usb=true persistent file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash --
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta i386 (20120328)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Antanas Budriūnas (antanasb)]

Same symptoms on fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 on Latitude E5400.
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)

I did manually the following and wireless now is working as expected:

sudo apt-get remove bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter firmware-b43-lpphy-installer

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for ubiquity (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]