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[Rostislav Kandilarov <rostislav.kandilarov@xxxxxxxxx>]

Christopher,

I did not remember what I've done with 12.04/10 , so I made a kubuntu
usb stick with 12.04.5 and run in on the laptop. Problem is the same
(3.2.0-7-generic x86, with bcmwl 6.20.155.1+bdcom-0ubuntu0.0.2 ), so for
sure it happened before precise(12.04) . What is more, looking at the
syslog I remind myself what I've done to make my wifi working then - to
simplify  - installed proper b43 driver.... At that time kde device
manager did not pop up with sugestion so I did my driver choise by
syslog warning suggestions for b43.

Not only did b43 not conflict with b44( the LAN driver) but it serve me
for a long time ;).

When it comes to broadcom-sta, good guide for me was 
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BroadcomSTA%28Wireless%29
where is  said that my card [14e4:4311] works with b43 but not with broadcom-sta, so after installing I do not get an offer for the card to use the driver.

Should I report the bug on
http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php directly ?

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1407522

Title:
  bcmwl package was sugested by KDE driver manager but broke the system

Status in bcmwl package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  On fresh 14.10 install on the first GUI run in KDE the KDE Driver
  Manager suggested installation of bcmwl-kernel-source (see attached
  screenshot)for my Broadcom Corporation BCM4311. After successful
  installation of the package and restart, my system got

  Jan  4 23:32:13 Beatles kernel: [   19.485177] wl driver 6.30.223.248 (r487574) failed with code 21
  Jan  4 23:32:13 Beatles kernel: [   19.485208] ------------[ cut here ]------------
  Jan  4 23:32:13 Beatles kernel: [   19.485242] kernel BUG at include/net/cfg80211.h:3343!

  full description of the message in attached file
  (syslog_extracted.log).

  For some reason this also affects the driver for my NIC  and my laptop
  got out of any possible network connection. So instead of configuring
  the wireless card it left me with only "lo" interface :(. I would
  expect properly configured modules for WAN and LAN....

  Luckily  
  apt-get remove --purge bcmwl-kernel-source 
  restores the previous state so I can submit this bug via LAN.

  Now I'm running  Ubuntu 14.10  but the same happened half an year ago
  when I tried to install 14.04 on this laptop.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
  Package: bcmwl-kernel-source (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-28.38-generic 3.16.7-ckt1
  Uname: Linux 3.16.0-28-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Mon Jan  5 01:00:26 2015
  SourcePackage: bcmwl
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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