Sounds like a race between the broadcom drivers. That's a little unusual because I thought those had already been sorted a long while ago, though it's possibly a side-effect of the upgrade from Lucid.
Reassigning to 'linux' for the kernel team to look at this issue. ** Package changed: network-manager (Ubuntu) => linux (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/934847 Title: No wifi on boot, need to unload ssb, b43 and wl, then reload wl Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: On every boot I need to do 'sudo modprobe -r wl ssb b43' and then 'sudo modprobe wl' to get my wifi going. I have a BCM43225 Broadcom WiFi card. If I dont do it no wifi interface is detected at all. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: network-manager 0.9.2.0+git201202161854.8572ecf-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-16.25-generic 3.2.6 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-16-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: wl ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1 Architecture: amd64 CRDA: Error: command ['iw', 'reg', 'get'] failed with exit code 1: nl80211 not found. Date: Sat Feb 18 10:04:49 2012 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1) IpRoute: default via 192.168.0.10 dev eth0 proto static 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.24 metric 2 NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true SourcePackage: network-manager UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-08 (9 days ago) nmcli-dev: DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH eth0 802-11-wireless connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1 eth1 802-3-ethernet unavailable /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 nmcli-nm: RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN running 0.9.3.0 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled disabled To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/934847/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
