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Comment 6 for bug 1166371

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massipinam (massimo-pinamonti) wrote : Re: [Lenovo E530]: Can't install Broadcom STA driver.

dell inspiron 1545 kubuntu 13.04 kernel 3.9.3-pf it can't recognize wifi-nets cause "module wl not found". Here the last part of jockey.log

2013-06-04 21:00:18,269 DEBUG: Installing package: linux-headers-
2013-06-04 21:00:18,764 ERROR: enabling kmod:wl: Unable to install kernel header package linux-headers-
2013-06-04 21:00:18,919 WARNING: modinfo for module wl failed: ERROR: Module wl not found.
2013-06-04 21:00:18,991 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled, bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: blacklisted, b43legacy: blacklisted

here modprobe

root@massimo-Inspiron-1545:~# modprobe -r b43 ssb wl
FATAL: Module wl not found.
root@massimo-Inspiron-1545:~# modprobe wl
FATAL: Module wl not found.

and here lspci

0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)