The drivers for my Broadcom WiFi card are playing monkey tricks again. Apparently when I try to re-install the drivers, I get an error due to bcwml-kernel-source being missing, but when I try to install it, I get this:
➜ sudo apt install bcmwl-kernel-source
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
bcmwl-kernel-source is already the newest version (6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu5).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
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Setting up bcmwl-kernel-source (6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu5) ...
Removing old bcmwl-6.30.223.271+bdcom DKMS files...
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Deleting module version: 6.30.223.271+bdcom
completely from the DKMS tree.
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Done.
Loading new bcmwl-6.30.223.271+bdcom DKMS files...
Building for 5.8.0-34-generic 5.8.0-36-generic
Building for architecture x86_64
Building initial module for 5.8.0-34-generic
ERROR: Cannot create report: [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/crash/bcmwl-kernel-source.0.crash'
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.8.0-34-generic (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.30.223.271+bdcom/build/make.log for more information.
dpkg: error processing package bcmwl-kernel-source (--configure):
installed bcmwl-kernel-source package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
bcmwl-kernel-source
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Why am I getting this error? How can I fix this problem?
UPDATE:
I tried to do like it says in this question but it also did not work.
➜ sudo dpkg -i bcmwl-kernel-source_6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb
dpkg: warning: downgrading bcmwl-kernel-source from 6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu5 to 6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu4
(Reading database ... 300024 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack bcmwl-kernel-source_6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu4_amd64.deb ...
Removing all DKMS Modules
Done.
Unpacking bcmwl-kernel-source (6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu4) over (6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu5) ...
Setting up bcmwl-kernel-source (6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu4) ...
Loading new bcmwl-6.30.223.271+bdcom DKMS files...
Building for 5.8.0-34-generic 5.8.0-36-generic
Building for architecture x86_64
Building initial module for 5.8.0-34-generic
ERROR: Cannot create report: [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/crash/bcmwl-kernel-source.0.crash'
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.8.0-34-generic (x86_64)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.30.223.271+bdcom/build/make.log for more information.
dpkg: error processing package bcmwl-kernel-source (--install):
installed bcmwl-kernel-source package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10
Errors were encountered while processing:
bcmwl-kernel-source
After browsing the list of drivers, I took the latest one. In my case
0ubuntu7. That one did the trick!