-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Glenn,
yes, I am having the same symptoms as you are - and being reminded to "upgrade" the driver constantly has become annoying. I wish the author would just roll this update back and redevelop it properly. Is it possible that nobody is really aware at Ubuntu of what is going on? Regards, Daniel On 03/02/2013 05:00 AM, Glenn Horton-Smith wrote: > I am seeing this issue too, on two different laptops. One is a > HP-Mini-210-1100, the other a old black MacBook. On both, > everything is fine if I downgrade to 5.100.82.38 using sudo apt-get > install bcmwl-kernel-source=5.100.82.38+bdcom-0ubuntu6 > > With bcmwl-kernel-source=6.20.155.1+bdcom-0ubuntu0.0.1 installed, > the wireless works as far as seeing the available networks, but > when I try to connect, the status in the top menu bar repeatedly > loops through showing the "radiating waves icon" typical of when > connecting to a network, and then switches to the circular > "updating" icon usually seen when first turning on wireless, and > then back again to the "waves", repeating that several times before > eventually announcing "network disconnected". Looking at the log > messages using sudo tail -f /var/log/kern.log while this is > happening, I see lots of messages from cfg80211 about disabling > frequencies, updating information, disabling frequencies, over and > over again. > > I'll just downgrade until this is fixed, since that works for me, > but I hope it gets fixed. (I prefer not to fuss with > update-notifier update- manager's default settings if I can help > it, but that means it will keep offering this update to me.) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRMxBIAAoJEEmI9TxGLpkDOkQIAMiYDtoNUTu90YGgjqKtAUg9 58b/wy+TnaTWBNWU5shajDNJO/u2+mZD99/vCdYC7WFOu0gS+MMmiz5nO/EXlPtC 5qDruQ2SiyOPS1YLK0Fj19ghOV4gokbUu571hKrUSw1E3apJSbdQkxp6c1uWKZxn e2mggrGstrh9MliOJ7/gHnuj7Vay3b+QvqFAoHeE9u5mpuN2BDo3QQwfAmGhrwTw J5f8gn8muzCYSWrd3K0e4olFI19mJO+5/IQc5YQpH28TVaVx1OVBkigUEazkCJXO mwqOM2uZGPBHlFYZzyvTS8hwgsFsbGMD4UCTJeccm/PhjhRwOWENVE2i69/h2Ss= =ZqhG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1107109 Title: the last upgrade broke WiFi To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/1107109/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
