"Additional drivers" recommends wrong solution for BCM4318
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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unity-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
On my Acer Aspire 3613WLMi laptop I have the following wireless network card:
thue@thue-
[...]
06:05.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
[...]
Which is not automatically working on installation. The "additional drivers" in the ubuntu control center recommends downloading a properitary driver (see attached screenshot) - after I install that the network card doesn't actually work, and the kernel oopses.
But if I after much googling install the firmware-
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: unity-settings-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-37-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Oct 28 15:50:32 2014
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-26 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20140807.1)
SourcePackage: unity-settings-
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-10-26 (1 days ago)