Bug 17231 - Broadcom wireless doesn't work with 2.6.35
Summary: Broadcom wireless doesn't work with 2.6.35
Status: REJECTED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Drivers
Classification: Unclassified
Component: network-wireless (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: P1 high
Assignee: drivers_network-wireless@kernel-bugs.osdl.org
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Reported: 2010-08-29 00:11 UTC by cjkosciuk
Modified: 2010-08-31 15:15 UTC (History)
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Kernel Version: 2.6.35-020635-generic
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Regression: No
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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!
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