"Additional drivers" recommends wrong solution for BCM4318

Bug #1386742 reported by Thue Janus Kristensen
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Bug Description

On my Acer Aspire 3613WLMi laptop I have the following wireless network card:

thue@thue-Aspire-3610:~$ lspci
[...]
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-b43-installer package from the Ubuntu repository, then my wireless network card works! So IMO the "additional drivers" should offer that solution for this device, at least as an option. The "additional drivers" dialogue actually continues to say "this device is not working" after I have done this, even though the wireless network connection is up and running.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: unity-settings-daemon 14.04.0+14.04.20140606-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-37.64-generic 3.13.11.7
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-daemon
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-10-26 (1 days ago)

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