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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

Nehal Mistry, thank you for the requested information. The root cause
here as identified is that when one clicks "Install third party
software" during the installer, it attempts to install the broadcom
drivers (which do not support your particular card as per their README).

Hence, the fix would be that the Broadcom drivers are not installed if
one clicks this.

Alberto Milone, would this be one for you, or would this be a different
area/specialist?

** Summary changed:

- modprobe wl crashes with broadcom 4306
+ 14e4:4320 modprobe wl crashes with broadcom 4306

** Summary changed:

- 14e4:4320 modprobe wl crashes with broadcom 4306
+ 14e4:4320 "Install third party software" during install installs wl for BCM4306 when it's not supported

** Changed in: bcmwl (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Triaged

** Changed in: bcmwl (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Alberto Milone (albertomilone)

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Title:
  14e4:4320 "Install third party software" during install installs wl
  for BCM4306 when it's not supported

Status in “bcmwl” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  I was installing Xubuntu 14.04. It said 'Configuring bcmwl-kernel-
  source amd64)' and in the details "DKMS: install completed." and it
  just froze there. To continue installation I had to open up a terminal
  and execute  'sudo killall -9 modprobe' due to the wl module being
  installed when it doesn't support my 4306 card. I had to add it to the
  module blacklist.

  WORKAROUND: During the installation, do not select "Install third
  party software".

  lspci -vvnn | grep -A 9 Network

  06:02.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 03)
          Subsystem: Linksys WMP54GS v1.0 802.11g Wireless-G PCI Adapter with SpeedBooster [1737:0015]
          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: 32
          Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 18
          Region 0: Memory at f8100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
          Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge

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