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[Daniel van Vugt <daniel.van.vugt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1358966 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1358966

That's strange. You're running Ubuntu 16.04 but have an old broadcom
driver that's from Ubuntu 14.04.

Regardless, the fix is already present in the official bcmwl driver in Ubuntu. So please switch to that, which should be:
  bcmwl (6.30.223.248+bdcom-0ubuntu8) xenial; urgency=medium


** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1358966
   Broadcom kernel module failed to build [error: macro "alloc_netdev" requires 4 arguments, but only 3 given]

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Title:
  bcmwl-kernel-source  not installed : bcmwl kernel module failed to
  build

Status in bcmwl package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I do not know - just a deb package...

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
  Package: bcmwl-kernel-source 6.30.223.141+bdcom-0ubuntu2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-6.21-generic 4.4.1
  Uname: Linux 4.4.0-6-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  DKMSKernelVersion: 4.4.0-6-generic
  Date: Thu Feb 18 18:23:06 2016
  DuplicateSignature: dkms:bcmwl-kernel-source:(not installed):/var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.30.223.141+bdcom/build/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:1354:64: error: macro "alloc_netdev" requires 4 arguments, but only 3 given
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-02-08 (9 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160205)
  PackageVersion: (not installed)
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   dpkg 1.18.4ubuntu1
   apt  1.2.3
  SourcePackage: bcmwl
  Title: bcmwl-kernel-source (not installed): bcmwl kernel module failed to build
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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