This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-drivers-common - 1:0.2.91.6
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ubuntu-drivers-common (1:0.2.91.6) trusty-proposed; urgency=medium
* UbuntuDrivers/detect.py, debian/tests/system, tests/ubuntu_drivers.py:
- Do not autoinstall the broadcom driver. The open driver should be a
better solution now (LP: #1306928), as the binary driver prevents
a number of systems from using the wireless card.
- Autoinstall linux-firmware-nonfree. This will help now that we no
longer autoinstall Broadcom's binary driver.
- Fix the relevant tests now that linux-firmware-nonfree has replaced
bcmwl.
* gpu-manager.c, tests/gpu-manager.py:
- Ignore CRT displays when using PRIME. This works around systems whose
BIOS provides a ghost output (LP: #1296020).
- Check that we don't remove xorg.confs on 1st boot (as per the
previous SRU).
- Try harder when loading bbswitch (LP: #1310023). If loading bbswitch
fails try with or without the "skip_optimus_dsm=1" option. Also, make
sure that we trim dmi resources or matching will give us false
positives.
- Switch to intel/SNA for optimus systems (LP: #1326257).
- Make sure to unload nvidia-uvm or nvidia won't be
unloaded.
- Make sure to walk properly the /dev/dri dir. This
prevents the program from stopping when, for example
/dev/dri/card1 is available while /dev/dri/card0 is
not.
-- Alberto Milone <[email protected]> Fri, 06 Jun 2014 11:20:28
+0200
** Changed in: ubuntu-drivers-common (Ubuntu Trusty)
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1306928
Title:
Broadcom STA driver gets autoinstalled on BCM4313, where it's no
longer needed
Status in “jockey” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Committed
Status in “ubuntu-drivers-common” package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in “jockey” source package in Precise:
Fix Committed
Status in “ubuntu-drivers-common” source package in Precise:
Invalid
Status in “jockey” source package in Trusty:
Invalid
Status in “ubuntu-drivers-common” source package in Trusty:
Fix Released
Bug description:
SRU request:
== 14.04 ==
[Impact]
Ubuntu 14.04 ships with a good open replacement for the proprietary
driver, which seems to work on many systems that were quietly dropped
by the proprietary driver. We should default to the open driver. This
will only affect 14.04.1.
[Test Case]
1) If the broadcom driver is already installed, make sure to remove it:
sudo apt-get --purge remove bcmwl-kernel-source
Then reboot.
2) Test the automatic installation using the following command:
ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
and make sure that ubuntu-drivers does not install the broadcom driver
[Regression Potential]
It should be minimal (and affect only 14.04.1). The open broadcom
driver should already work out of the box.
Furthermore the test suite now covers this test case.
== 12.04 ==
[Impact]
Kernel versions higher than 3.11 ship with a good open replacement for
the proprietary driver, which seems to work on many systems that were
quietly dropped by the proprietary driver. We should default to the
open driver when this is the case. This will only affect 12.04.5.
[Test Case]
1) If the broadcom driver is already installed, make sure to remove
it:
sudo apt-get --purge remove bcmwl-kernel-source
Then reboot.
2) Make sure that "linux-generic-lts-trusty" is installed:
sudo apt-get install linux-generic-lts-trusty
And reboot.
3) Test the automatic installation using the following command:
jockey-text --auto-install
and make sure that Jockey does not install the broadcom driver
[Regression Potential]
It should be minimal (and affect only 12.04.5). The open broadcom
driver should already work out of the box.
Furthermore the test suite now covers this test case.
== Description ==
The propreitory driver Broadcom STA (packaged as 'bcmwl-kernel-source',
provides 'wl' kernel module) gets autoinstalled upon Ubuntu 12.04.4
installation on systems with Broadcom BCM4313 (14e4:4727) wireless cards. Upto
Ubuntu 12.04.3 with 3.8 kernel, this was good behaviour. But, with 3.11 kernel
used in Ubuntu 13.10 and Ubuntu 12.04.4, the official open source 'brcmsmac'
driver had improved (with the newly implemented AdHoc and AP mode, and other
improvements) over propreitory 'wl'. On newer kernel versions, 'brcmsmac' works
better than 'wl'.
Autoinstalling the 'wl' driver would actually be a "downgrade" of
functionality. I understand that there are some cards work only with 'wl', but
it's better not to do autoinstall of 'bcmwl-kernel-source' on the ones
supported by 'brcmsmac'. It maybe offered on the jockey Additional Drivers
list, though I don't see any reason why anyone would prefer 'wl' over
'brcmsmac' now. I don't know if this issue remains on Ubuntu 14.04LTS's jockey
merged with 'ubuntu-drivers' package. But, if it does that has to be fixed too.
I hope this issue is fixed soon, so that Ubuntu 12.04.5 is released with the
fixed jockey.
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