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[John Kim <johnkim.ubuntu@xxxxxxxxx>]

** Tags added: saucy

** Tags added: hw-specific

** Description changed:

  Release:        Ubuntu 13.10
  Installation Media:        Desktop CD image from a USB stick with pendrivelinux
  Hardware:        Dell Inspiron 3721 with a Broadcom BCM43142A0 WLAN device.
  
- I would have expected that the live system and the installed system both
- have automatic network connectivity via WLAN.
+ [EXPECTED]
+ I would have expected that the live system and the installed system both have automatic network connectivity via WLAN.
  
- What happened instead:
  
+ [ACTUAL]
  1st problem: The live system didn't have WLAN network connectivity.
  
  I was able to activate it simply by installing "bcmwl-kernel-source"
  (after a lot of try and error):
  
-  sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source
+  sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source
  
  (2nd problem: This is rather counter-intuitive. Why do I have to install
  sources when I need a driver binary?)
  
  3rd problem: When I booted into the installed system, network was down
  again.
  
  Here the fix was more complicated, surely too complicated for a non-
  technical person:
  
- This is what I did:
  
-  sudo dpkg -i
- /media/hok/UUI/pool/main/d/dkms/dkms_2.2.0.3-1.1ubuntu4_all.deb
+ [MY APPROACH]
+  sudo dpkg -i /media/hok/UUI/pool/main/d/dkms/dkms_2.2.0.3-1.1ubuntu4_all.deb
  
-  sudo dpkg -i /media/hok/UUI/pool/restricted/b/bcmwl/bcmwl-kernel-
+  sudo dpkg -i /media/hok/UUI/pool/restricted/b/bcmwl/bcmwl-kernel-
  source_6.30.223.141+bdcom-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
  
- Proposed solution:
  
- These problems would be solved if the Ubuntu installer installed the
- driver by default, or after detecting an appropriate device.
+ [Proposed solution]
+ These problems would be solved if the Ubuntu installer installed the driver by default, or after detecting an appropriate device.

** Package changed: ubuntu => linux (Ubuntu)

** Tags added: needs-reassignment

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Title:
  Ubuntu 13.10 Fresh Install on Laptop: no Network Connectivity - bcmwl
  WLAN Driver not Installed

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Release:        Ubuntu 13.10
  Installation Media:        Desktop CD image from a USB stick with pendrivelinux
  Hardware:        Dell Inspiron 3721 with a Broadcom BCM43142A0 WLAN device.

  [EXPECTED]
  I would have expected that the live system and the installed system both have automatic network connectivity via WLAN.

  
  [ACTUAL]
  1st problem: The live system didn't have WLAN network connectivity.

  I was able to activate it simply by installing "bcmwl-kernel-source"
  (after a lot of try and error):

   sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source

  (2nd problem: This is rather counter-intuitive. Why do I have to
  install sources when I need a driver binary?)

  3rd problem: When I booted into the installed system, network was down
  again.

  Here the fix was more complicated, surely too complicated for a non-
  technical person:

  
  [MY APPROACH]
   sudo dpkg -i /media/hok/UUI/pool/main/d/dkms/dkms_2.2.0.3-1.1ubuntu4_all.deb

   sudo dpkg -i /media/hok/UUI/pool/restricted/b/bcmwl/bcmwl-kernel-
  source_6.30.223.141+bdcom-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb

  
  [Proposed solution]
  These problems would be solved if the Ubuntu installer installed the driver by default, or after detecting an appropriate device.

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