Comment 116 for bug 292450

I looked at the tutorial page and I saw no mention of how to install the
broadcom sta driver. I'm not a german speaker so I just might have missed
it. In any case, the broadcom sta driver bundled in the ubuntu repositories
should work perfectly. The package you need to install for ubuntu 9.10 is
bcmwl-kernel-source <http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/bcmwl-kernel-source>.
Its the source package containing the broadcom sta driver. When installed,
dkms will configure it and voila, after a reboot, wireless works.

Good luck

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Jens Janssen <email address hidden> wrote:

> I'm the one who mostly wrote this tutorial ;-) but don't blame me. The
> Broadcom wl / STA driver is closed source so there is not much you can
> do about it. So blame Broadcom :-)
>
> Normally Ubuntu uses most recent STA driver version. You can check that
> with
> "strings `modinfo wl | grep filename | awk '{print $2}'` | grep Broadcom".
>
> What happens if you execute "sudo iwconfig eth2 power off" ?
>
> You can put the latter in /etc/rc.local before "exit 0" (run "gksudo
> gedit /etc/rc.local") to make it automatically available every startup.
>
> Gruesse
>
> --
> Broadcom STA/wl driver causes random kernel panics
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/292450
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