Bug 17231

Summary:	Broadcom wireless doesn't work with 2.6.35
Product:	Drivers	Reporter:	cjkosciuk
Component:	network-wireless	Assignee:	drivers_network-wireless (drivers_network-wireless)
Status:	REJECTED INVALID
Severity:	high	CC:	linville
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.35-020635-generic	Subsystem:
Regression:	No	Bisected commit-id:

Description cjkosciuk 2010-08-29 00:11:08 UTC

Upon installing 2.6.35-020635-generic and rebooting, my wireless network card failed. BCM4312 802.11b/g, using Broadcom STA driver.

Comment 1 John W. Linville 2010-08-30 17:55:27 UTC

Does "Broadcom STA driver" refer to the "wl" driver from Broadcom?

Comment 2 cjkosciuk 2010-08-31 02:00:25 UTC

Yes, I believe so. "wl" is what shows up in the lsmod output. I'm running 9.04 on this machine, which has the driver pre-installed, but on 9.10 and after it needs to be downloaded through the hardware manager, and shows up there as "Broadcom STA".

So the driver works under 2.6.32, but as I wrote, it fails to work under 2.6.35 (I haven't tried .33 or .34 yet on this machine).

Comment 3 John W. Linville 2010-08-31 15:15:39 UTC

Ah...well, I'm sorry.  I can't support an out of stream driver.  I suggest you seek support from Broadcom and/or whatever channels Ubuntu provides.

Good luck!