Ok, I updated the bios of my laptop from A10 to A15. Here is the output o 'sudo dmidecode -s bios-version && sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date' A15 09/24/2014
Nothing has changed concerning the wireless interface, when running kernel 3.16.0-25 wifi doesn't work, while it works perfectly when running the old 3.13 kernel. Here is the output from 'lspci -vvnn | grep -A 9 Network' ------------------------------- 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4359] Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0014] Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 3 Region 0: Memory at f7e00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: <access denied> 0b:00.0 SD Host controller [0805]: O2 Micro, Inc. Device [1217:8221] (rev 05) (prog-if 01) -------------------------------- And this is the output of 'lspci -vvnn | grep -A 9 Network' when running linux 3.13.0-40 -------------------------------- 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n [14e4:4359] Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0014] Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 Region 0: Memory at f7e00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: wl --------------------------------- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1397383 Title: Wireless interface Broadcom BCM43228 in Dell Latitude 5530 is not recognised with linux-generic-lts-utopic 3.16.0-25 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/1397383/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs