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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  15.10 does not offer broadcom drivers for BCM4360 wireless on macbook
  air

Status in ubuntu-drivers-common package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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.
  --- 
  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)
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  Package: ubuntu-drivers-common 1:0.4.11 [origin: unknown]
  PackageArchitecture: amd64
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-16.19-generic 4.2.3
  Tags: third-party-packages wily
  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
  _MarkForUpload: True

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