Public bug reported:
Steps:
1. Have a machine with broadcom wireless, such as a dell mini-10v
2. install the quantal kernel from the PPA
3. restart your computer
Effect
Wireless is not recognized in the network manager
Run jockey and choose to activate the broadcom driver
Effect
Jockey fails, with this info in the log
2012-05-24 08:48:01,748 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled,
bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: blacklisted, b43legacy: blacklisted
2012-05-24 08:48:01,920 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled,
bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: blacklisted, b43legacy: blacklisted
2012-05-24 08:48:02,135 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled,
bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: blacklisted, b43legacy: blacklisted
2012-05-24 08:48:14,667 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled,
bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: blacklisted, b43legacy: blacklisted
2012-05-24 08:48:18,839 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled,
bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: blacklisted, b43legacy: blacklisted
2012-05-24 08:48:21,837 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled,
bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: blacklisted, b43legacy: blacklisted
2012-05-24 08:48:29,040 WARNING: modinfo for module wl failed: ERROR: modinfo:
could not find module wl
2012-05-24 08:48:29,042 WARNING: /sys/module/wl/drivers does not exist, cannot
rebind wl driver
2012-05-24 08:48:29,159 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled,
bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: blacklisted, b43legacy: blacklisted
2012-05-24 08:50:17,551 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled,
bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: blacklisted, b43legacy: blacklisted
2012-05-24 08:50:17,652 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled,
bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: blacklisted, b43legacy: blacklisted
2012-05-24 08:50:17,739 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled,
bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: blacklisted, b43legacy: blacklisted
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: qa-kernel-lts-testing
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broadcom wireless does not work with quantal-backport-kernel
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