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Peter
Asked: 2011-05-27 15:26:49 +0800 CST

Broadcom STA Wireless Driver Fails to install

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I'm setting up a Dell M4400 Precision, and on previous installations I've merely installed the Broadcom STA Wireless Driver from the "Additional Drivers" app. However with 11.04, I get this error: Sorry, installation of this driver failed.

Please have a look at the log file for details: /var/log/jockey.log.

Which contains: 

2011-05-26 19:18:33,726 WARNING: /sys/module/wl/drivers does not exist, cannot rebind wl driver
2011-05-26 19:18:33,743 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled, bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: blacklisted, b43legacy: blacklisted

Wifi works fine on Windows, and had worked fine in Ubuntu 8.10-10.10. I've done a fair amount of searching and tried quite a few fixes, all of them failed.

EDIT: After uncommenting the blacklist file I got the following errors in the var/log/jockey.log: 

2011-06-01 12:49:13,283 DEBUG: updating <jockey.detection.LocalKernelModulesDriverDB     instance at 0x9adfaec
2011-06-01 12:49:15,395 DEBUG: reading modalias file /lib/modules/2.6.38-8-generic-pae/modules.alias
2011-06-01 12:49:15,521 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/b43
2011-06-01 12:49:15,526 DEBUG: reading modalias file /usr/share/jockey/modaliases/disable-upstream-nvidia
2011-06-01 12:49:15,554 WARNING: Could not open DriverDB cache /var/cache/jockey/driverdb-OpenPrintingDriverDB.cache: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/cache/jockey/driverdb-OpenPrintingDriverDB.cache'
2011-06-01 12:49:15,567 DEBUG: loading custom handler /usr/share/jockey/handlers/broadcom_wl.py
2011-06-01 12:49:15,627 WARNING: modinfo for module wl failed: ERROR: modinfo: could not find module wl
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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I actually have 2 Broadcom wireless cards in my laptop. What I do to get in working is:

    dpkg -l | grep b43 to find any b43 related packages to remove.

    Then,

    sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source dkms

    It has worked for me on every Ubuntu release I've used, including Ubuntu 11.04.

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