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[Vincenzo Costa <cvincenzo16@xxxxxxxx>]

I tried with the latest ubuntu image, via unetbootin and a USB drive.

Once opened the live session I checked the wireless network: it doesn't
work!

Here are the checking commands an their outputs:

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apt-cache policy bcmwl-kernel-source

bcmwl-kernel-source:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 6.30.223.248+bdcom-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
     6.30.223.248+bdcom-0ubuntu2 0
        500 cdrom://Ubuntu 15.04 _Vivid Vervet_ - Alpha amd64 (20141201)/ vivid/restricted amd64 Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/restricted amd64 Packages
     6.30.223.141+bdcom-0ubuntu2 0
        500 cdrom://Ubuntu 15.04 _Vivid Vervet_ - Alpha amd64 (20141201)/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

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lspci -vvnn | grep -A 9 Network

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4359]
        Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0014]
        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 f7e00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: <access denied>
        Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge

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lsb_release -rd

Description:    Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch)
Release:        15.04

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uname -a

Linux ubuntu 3.16.0-25-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 4 12:06:54 UTC
2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date

A15
09/24/2014

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1397383

Title:
  14e4:4359 [Dell Latitude 5530] Broadcom BCM43228 WiFi interface not
  recognized with linux-generic-lts-utopic 3.16.0-25

Status in bcmwl package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I have a Dell latitude 5530 laptop with the Broadcom BCM43228 wireless card, and I currently run Kubuntu 14.04.1 LTS. It works ok with the 3.13.0-40 original linux kernel, but after installing the linux-generic-lts-utopic kernel (version 3.16-25) the wireless interface does not appear any more. The kubuntu applet for network connections does not allow to switch the wireless network on. Booting back with 3.13 kernel can fix the issue, so it's not a hardware problem. The following commands do not give any output concerning the wireless interface wlan0 or the BCM43228:
  dmesg | grep 'BCM'
  iwconfig
  ifconfig

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: linux-generic-lts-utopic 3.16.0.25.19
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-40.69-generic 3.13.11.10
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-40-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Fri Nov 28 17:35:37 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-25 (581 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130423.1)
  SourcePackage: linux-meta-lts-utopic
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-18 (224 days ago)

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