Comment 9 for bug 1097519
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| Adam Porter (alphapapa) wrote Re: Use brcmsmac driver for BCM4313 | #9 |
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Bug 1154219 is relevant here.
This is extremely confusing. Quantal worked perfectly for my BCM4313 using bcmwl-kernel-source 5.100.82.112. Then I upgraded to Raring, which used 6.20.155.1, which fails with this hardware. I reinstalled the 5.100.82.112 package from Quantal and it works perfectly again.
Now I see this bug which suggests that I should use the broadcom-sta-* packages instead, however these are in multiverse, while bcmwl-kernel-source is in restricted. Seeing as how multiverse is unsupported, shouldn't users use the package in restricted?
Why are there even two packages that seem to do the same thing? The version of broadcom-sta-* is 5.100.82.112, which is the version of bcmwl-kernel-source that works. And the descriptions of both packages have the exact same list of supported network cards.
This bug was reported months before the Raring release, but it was neglected, and it's still biting users today. There are many duplicate bug reports being caused by this problem.
This bug should be of Critical importance. It is causing crashes, build failures, excessive errors in kernel logs, and preventing wireless networking from working at all on some systems.