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[Anthony Durity <anthony.durity@xxxxxxxxx>]

I can confirm this with a Macbook5,1 - it worked fine in previous
releases but now fails to find my Apple Airport WIFI thingy. Turned out
the damn thing was on channel 13. Changing to channel 6 and it connects
first time! Infuriating. Please make a release note or something ...

03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n
Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)

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Title:
  Broadcom BCM4322 STA & brcm80211 can't see wifi channels >11
  (2.462GHz)

Status in Mactel Support:
  New
Status in “bcmwl” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 8.10 Karmic (Release Candidate)

  On a TabletPC: HP Pavilion TX2690 , using Broadcom BCM4322 WIFI-card.

  
  This is strange... I installed the "Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA driver". 

  At home, I find my wireless network, and is able to connect. No problem. (WPA-encrypted non-hidden network).
  At work, I cannot fint the wireless network at all! Even though I could with Jaunty (this is a clean install). And at work we also have a WPA-encrypted non-hidden network.

  I can't really understand this... While at work, It does find two
  other wireless networks from our neighbours, with very low strengt.
  The wireless network is physically mounted only 3-4 metres away from
  me here at work. And it works great at another laptop, and on my
  iPhone. But using Karmic on this laptop, with the Broadcom STA driver,
  the laptop can't even see the wireless network.


  I don't know what I should include... please tell if you need more
  info!


  Thanks in advance.

  Kind regards from Norway,
  Jørn.

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Oct 28 09:19:44 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release Candidate amd64 (20091020.3)
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx wl
  Package: bcmwl-kernel-source (not installed)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=nb_NO.UTF-8
   LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
  SourcePackage: bcmwl
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
  XsessionErrors:
   (gnome-settings-daemon:2510): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
   (gnome-settings-daemon:2510): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
   (nautilus:2685): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
   (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2734): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
   (gnome-panel:2667): Gdk-WARNING **: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.18.3/gdk/x11/gdkdrawable-x11.c:952 drawable is not a pixmap or window