DELL XPS 13: bcmwl-kernel-source not installed when 3rd party drivers is selected so no wifi and no ethernet port either
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Trusty |
Fix Released
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High
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Adam Conrad |
Bug Description
[ SRU Justification ]
WIRELESS NO WORKIE, HALP
[ Test Case ]
Boot into a live 14.04.3 system, hit a shell, upgrade to ubuntu-
[ Regression Potential ]
This same revert exists in utopic -> wily, and is working fine, and I also tested it by hand on an affected trusty machine, where it did the trick, so I don't think there's much chance for the 1-line code change to break. There's a slim chance that the fragile testsuite will explode, but that seemed to work fine here.
[ Original Report ]
STEPS:
1. Download the latest daily image of trusty from http://
2. Copy this to a usb pendrive using the Disks app
3. Boot from this
4. Select install
5. Select Install 3rd party drivers
6. System reboots after install
7. Reboot to the live desktop
8. Do mkdir tmp
9. sudo mount /dev/sda1 tmp/
10. sudo mkdir tmp/EFI/boot
11. sudo touch tmp/EFI/
12. May need to hit F2 and up a new uefi point it to shim.efi on /EFI/ubuntu/
13. Boot and login
14. Try and connect to wifi
EXPECTED:
I expect to always be able to get online.
ACTUAL:
bcmwl-kernel-source is not installed, because there is no cd you can't install the driver from there and there is no ethernet port on this device so you can't install from there either.
WORKAROUND:
Insert the install usb stick, open a terminal, type:
sudo mkdir /media/cdrom
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/cdrom
Open system settings
Select Software and Updates
On the Ubuntu Software tab check the box next to the CDrom
Close this to update the cache
Reopen tap on Additional Drivers tab and click on install the Broadcom 802.11......driver
Reboot
Related branches
tags: | added: qa-manual-testing |
description: | updated |
Changed in ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu Trusty): | |
assignee: | nobody → Adam Conrad (adconrad) |
tags: |
added: verification-done removed: verification-needed |
This regression was introduced in an attempt to make the free driver the default, but it never really worked out as planned, and was later reverted in utopic. Reverting the same two commits in trusty will solve the issue. See:
https:/ /github. com/tseliot/ ubuntu- drivers- common/ commit/ 628bd821864966e d3c4b8ae2da1cfb 13d006f37f /github. com/tseliot/ ubuntu- drivers- common/ commit/ 30c092f6e6dcce0 6e014f34c379785 ce8d849668
https:/
I'm going to SRU this as soon as I can get a clear answer on whether we can verify bug #1410801 in time, or if I should revert that SRU to upload mine.