15.10 does not offer broadcom drivers for BCM4360 wireless on macbook air

[Jeff Lane ]

Installed Wily from todays daily (4.2.0-16.19). After booting, I am unable to use the wireless device. The wifi is a broadcom BCM4360 based device on a late 2013 Macbook Air.

Wily wants to load b43 and dmesg only shows this:

b43-phy0: Broadcom 4360 WLAN found (core revision 42)
Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PNL ]

Netman does not list the wifi device at all.

lspci says:

03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4360 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 03)
kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge

If I use ubuntu-drivers, it also does not list the broadcom device.

I had to manually install bcmwl-kernel-source from Restricted via apt.
Once dkms had worked it's magic, I was able to use the wifi device on my macbook under Wily.

So expected behaviour:

running ubuntu-drivers will show/install the necessary proprietary bits for the BMC43xx device.

Observed behaviour:

ubuntu-drivers does not list the BCM43xx device at all.
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ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-10-21 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Release amd64 (20151020)
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: ubuntu-drivers-common 1:0.4.11 [origin: unknown]
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-16.19-generic 4.2.3
Tags: third-party-packages wily
Uname: Linux 4.2.0-16-generic x86_64
UnreportableReason: This is not an official Ubuntu package. Please remove any third party package and try again.
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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[Jeff Lane  (bladernr)]

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[chielchiel (chiel)]

I got it working by installing the Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA wireless driver source with:

$ sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

@Jeff: this looks like a duplicate of LP: #1500591 (which I fixed in 16.04)

This is the modalias on your system:

pci:v000014E4d000043A0sv0000106Bsd00000117bc02sc80i00

and this is what the driver package includes:
pci:v000014E4d000043a0sv*sd*bc02sc80i*

It is an uppercase vs lowercase issue.