Yes this is a work around but the brcmsmac is not as efficient, uses more
power and overall does not have nearly the throughput of the bcmwl. My work
around for 100+ Dell
Inspiron and Latitude laptops has been to ditch the Broadcom chip and
replace it with an Intel chip. The Centrino 6250 has worked very well and
is an inexpensive upgrade.

Intel does what Broadcom should do work with the open source community to
produce the best drivers possible.
On Jun 9, 2013 2:45 PM, "Adam Porter" <email address hidden> wrote:

> And to confirm: removing bcmwl-kernel-source and broadcom-sta-source and
> using the in-tree brcmsmac driver is working on my Acer Aspire One AO722
> with BCM4313 chipset on Raring with the 3.8.0-23 kernel.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1097519
>
> Title:
>   Wrong driver used for older Broadcom chipsets
>
> Status in “bcmwl” package in Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>   On upgrade to 13.04, the wl.ko, package bcmwl-kernel-source drier is
>   selected.
>
>   This driver does not allow the computer to boot and causes great pain in
> recovery for users, most of which will not be able to get the Ubuntu
> installation functional
>   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/1097509
>
>   Instead use the driver brcmsmac, that actually works with BCM4313
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
>   Package: linux-image-3.7.0-7-generic 3.7.0-7.15
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.7.0-7.15-generic 3.7.0
>   Uname: Linux 3.7.0-7-generic i686
>   ApportVersion: 2.7-0ubuntu2
>   Architecture: i386
>   AudioDevicesInUse:
>    USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
>    /dev/snd/controlC0:  foxyboy    1904 F.... pulseaudio
>   Date: Tue Jan  8 15:36:51 2013
>   HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=695c8efa-91da-424d-983e-cc08dd01eba3
>   MachineType: LENOVO 20040M18
>   MarkForUpload: True
>   ProcEnviron:
>    TERM=xterm
>    PATH=(custom, no user)
>    XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
>    LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>    SHELL=/bin/bash
>   ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
>   ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.7.0-7-generic
> root=UUID=8b809c57-f15a-464f-a7a9-fafb8abaa715 ro quiet
>   RelatedPackageVersions:
>    linux-restricted-modules-3.7.0-7-generic N/A
>    linux-backports-modules-3.7.0-7-generic  N/A
>    linux-firmware                           1.99
>   SourcePackage: linux
>   UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-01-08 (0 days ago)
>   dmi.bios.date: 08/30/2010
>   dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
>   dmi.bios.version: 24CN62WW
>   dmi.board.name: Caucasus2
>   dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
>   dmi.board.version: Rev 1.0
>   dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
>   dmi.chassis.type: 10
>   dmi.chassis.vendor: Lenovo
>   dmi.chassis.version: Rev 1.0
>   dmi.modalias:
> dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvr24CN62WW:bd08/30/2010:svnLENOVO:pn20040M18:pvrLenovoIdeapadS10-3t:rvnLENOVO:rnCaucasus2:rvrRev1.0:cvnLenovo:ct10:cvrRev1.0:
>   dmi.product.name: 20040M18
>   dmi.product.version: Lenovo Ideapad S10-3t
>   dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
>
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