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  1. Bug #1097519
  2. Comment #30

Comment 30 for bug 1097519

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bkloppenborg (bkloppenborg) wrote : Re: Wrong driver used for older Broadcom chipsets

The merger of Bug #1174145 into this group is inappropriate. This bug appears to be related to getting brcmsmac selected by default, whereas Bug #1174145 is related to a WLAN interference issue that popped up between bcmwl-kernel-source versions 5.100.82.112+bdcom-0ubuntu3 shipped with 12.10 and 6.20.155.1+bdcom-0ubuntu6 shipped in 13.04. Therefore I have unmarked Bug #1174145 as being a duplicate of the bug discussed in this thread. If someone feels this is in error, please provide sufficient justification on Bug #1174145.

In relation to this bug, although my BCM4313 (PCI ID 14e4:4727) does work with the brcmsmac driver, the performance of brcmsmac leaves much to be desired compared with bcmwl-kernel-source.