15.10 does not offer broadcom drivers for BCM4360 wireless on macbook air
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| One Hundred Papercuts |
Confirmed
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High
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Unassigned | ||
| ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
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)
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: ubuntu-
PackageArchitec
ProcVersionSign
Tags: third-party-
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)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
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| Jeff Lane (bladernr) wrote Dependencies.txt | #1 |
| tags: | added: apport-collected third-party-packages wily |
| description: | updated |
| Jeff Lane (bladernr) wrote JournalErrors.txt | #2 |
| Jeff Lane (bladernr) wrote ProcEnviron.txt | #3 |
| Jeff Lane (bladernr) wrote UbuntuDriversDebug.txt | #4 |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #5 |
| Changed in ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| information type: | Public → Public Security |
| information type: | Public Security → Private Security |
| information type: | Private Security → Public |
| chielchiel (chiel) wrote | #6 |
| Changed in ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Alberto Milone (albertomilone) wrote | #7 |
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