Had the problem on a Dell Latitude 131L (with a 4311): wifi switch turned off at startup, no wireless even after turning it on (via switch or rfkill), etc.
First attempt at using b43 instead of STA resulted in b43 not working and ethernet disabled (probably because STA installation had blacklisted b44 as I discovered later). At second attempt I installed the latest version of the previous STA driver http://launchpadlibrarian.net/59629137/bcmwl-kernel- source_5.60.246.2%2Bbdcom-0ubuntu3_i386.deb , rebooted, then noticed that neither b44 nor wl were loaded. It turned out that probably the installation of b43 had blacklisted wl, but reinstalling STA didn't remove the blacklisting: since wl itself blacklists b44 so that it gets disabled along with ssb before being re-enabled, neither were loaded at startup. So I removed the wl blacklisting from /etc/modprobe.d, rebooted, and both wl and b44 were loaded. Still, the wifi switch was off at startup. I found a post blaming dell-laptop, so I blacklisted it, and everything is now working as expected. Still, it's amazing how with every Ubuntu release it's harder and harder to have a functioning laptop, even if at each release I do a fresh install (this time preserving /home, to be fair). Oh, well, at least with 11.04 it seems the hard freezes that have plagued my system for the last THREE releases are finally gone. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/732677 Title: bcmwl 5.100.82.38+bdcom-0ubuntu2 not work on BCM4311 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
