wl driver (Broadcom) does not receive ARP packets (broadcasts)

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Hi David,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

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I did a dist-upgrade of server 12.04 today, and am now experiencing exactly this problem. I also have the same driver (wl) using a BCM4313 wireless card. Is this a regression?

I am also experiencing this problem since a couple of days ago with a netbook on my network that I no longer can access with SSH, but that has full access to the internet and other computers on the network.

Also here: Ubuntu 12.04; wl 3.2.0-37-generic-pae; broadcom bcm4313

Same here: Ubuntu 12.04 with lts-quantal-kernel (3.5.0-x). BCM4313 using latest bcmwl-kernel-source package.

Same here. Acer Aspire One 722, Kubuntu 12.10, BCM 4313.

Same Chipset same Wifi problem.

I had something else go wrong with this at the same time... My Wifi wouldn't DHCP. So I fixed the IP and bound it in the router (I do this for my server anyway so no problems there).

In playing round with this I also found that if I remove security on the wireless it works just fine. It's only when I re-enable WPA/WPA2 (PSK) that the problem comes back. Weird.

Problem does not seem to occur on x86 3.5.0-26

Same chhipset, same problem, HP DM2, Ubuntu precise, wl module

I believe I'm affected by this bug. I'm running Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail on a Lenovo S10-3 ideapad (netbook) with a 32-bit processor and the Broadcom BCM4313 chipset. I have the bcmwl-kernel-source package installed. For other non-professional users of Ubuntu, to figure out what wireless chipset you have follow the instructions here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx , and to find out what packages are installed go here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/17823/how-to-list-all-installed-packages .

My computer ignores broadcast ARP requests, which breaks ping and Samba. My troubleshooting process is described here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2172373&p=12778960#post12778960 . I'll try the work-around of adding a static ARP entry for all the other computers on my network. I've been running the current release versions of Ubuntu since 2010, and ping and Samba worked until I loaded Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail. I suppose I got a new version of the driver with the bug in it when I upgraded from Ubuntu 12.10 Quantum Quetzal.

David Monniaux, this bug report is being closed due to your last comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/414724/comments/11 regarding this being fixed with an update. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status. Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please submit any future bugs you may find.