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[Bug 1095751] Re: bcmwl fails to build with 3.8 kernels [error: ‘struct cfg80211_ibss_params’ has no member named ‘channel’]

 

Additional information:

On 201302-12844 Dell Latitude 3330 with 12.04.3 (kernel 3.8.0-29)
Wireless network works fine without the proprietary Broadcom STA driver

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0015]
	Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
	Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
	Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
	Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17
	Region 0: Memory at f7b00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge
	Kernel modules: bcma

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Title:
  bcmwl fails to build with 3.8 kernels [error: ‘struct
  cfg80211_ibss_params’ has no member named ‘channel’]

Status in “bcmwl” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “broadcom-sta” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Upcoming 3.8 kernels have broken this DKMS package.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: bcmwl-kernel-source 6.20.155.1+bdcom-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-0.1~apw2-generic 3.8.0-rc2
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-0-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.7-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Jan  3 17:59:26 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-11-07 (57 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120627)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: bcmwl
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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