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[Chris Hermansen <clhermansen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Christian;

For me the b43 installer in the repos does the trick. One must also
manually turn on the wifi with the Fn-key switch.

As pointes out above the version numbers in the title may not be current;
there are also many related bugs (although I disagree which are
duplicates); and the "real problem" appears to be that whatever code
decides which driver to use is jncorrect.

Also, for awhile at least the non-working driver was causing the whole
networking stack to crash though I think that is not the case in 13.10.

For clarity I have an inspiron 1501 with the b43 driver running fine on the
4311 device.

Chris Hermansen
On 2013-10-30 9:26 PM, "Christian S." <732677@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What is the state here?
>
> This issue still exists with a fresh install of 12.04.3 and 13.10. The
> default used driver is bcmwl but bcm4311 does not work with it.
>
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>   bcmwl 5.100.82.38+bdcom-0ubuntu2 not work on BCM4311/4312
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Title:
  bcmwl 5.100.82.38+bdcom-0ubuntu2 not work on BCM4311/4312

Status in Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA driver:
  Incomplete
Status in The Linux Kernel:
  Confirmed
Status in “bcmwl” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in Arch Linux:
  Invalid
Status in CentOS:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  After upgrade to Natty Alpha updated driver bcmwl-kernel-source
  5.100.82.38+bdcom-0ubuntu2 doesn`t work with wifi module. Notebook
  Dell inspiron 1501. b43 ot work too.

  I downgraded to bcmwl-kernel-source 5.60.48.36+bdcom-0ubuntu5 and
  still work fine.

  Please update driver.

  Additional:

  05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
   Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card
   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: 32 bytes
   Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
   Region 0: Memory at c0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
   Capabilities: <access denied>
   Kernel driver in use: wl
   Kernel modules: wl, ssb

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