I have the same problem with a Dell Latitude D620 - it has an integrated
BCM4311 wireless card:
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:~$ sudo lspci -v
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at efdfc000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [58] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [d0] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
Kernel driver in use: wl
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I now upgraded to Ubuntu 15.10 (32bit) - wireless is not working. When trying
to fix the issue it hangs again:
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:~$ sudo dpkg --configure -a
Setting up bcmwl-kernel-source (6.30.223.248+bdcom-0ubuntu7) ...
Removing old bcmwl-6.30.223.248+bdcom DKMS files...
-------- Uninstall Beginning --------
Module: bcmwl
Version: 6.30.223.248+bdcom
Kernel: 4.2.0-16-generic (i686)
-------------------------------------
Status: Before uninstall, this module version was ACTIVE on this kernel.
wl.ko:
- Uninstallation
- Deleting from: /lib/modules/4.2.0-16-generic/updates/dkms/
- Original module
- No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
- Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.
depmod....
DKMS: uninstall completed.
------------------------------
Deleting module version: 6.30.223.248+bdcom
completely from the DKMS tree.
------------------------------
Done.
Loading new bcmwl-6.30.223.248+bdcom DKMS files...
Building only for 4.2.0-16-generic
Building for architecture i686
Building initial module for 4.2.0-16-generic
Done.
wl:
Running module version sanity check.
- Original module
- No original module exists within this kernel
- Installation
- Installing to /lib/modules/4.2.0-16-generic/updates/dkms/
depmod....
DKMS: install completed.
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Here it hangs.
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Title:
package bcmwl-kernel-source 6.30.223.248+bdcom-0ubuntu7 failed to
install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script was
killed by signal (Killed)
Status in bcmwl package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Upgrading from 15.04 to 15.10 on an amd64 platform.
Installation hanging for ever while configuring bcmwl-kernel-source.
Needed to manually kill the bcmwl configuration process to be able to
eventually complete the upgrading process.
ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10
Package: bcmwl-kernel-source 6.30.223.248+bdcom-0ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-30.34-generic 3.19.8-ckt6
Uname: Linux 3.19.0-30-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: vboxpci vboxnetadp vboxnetflt vboxdrv wl
ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 23 09:06:39 2015
DuplicateSignature:
package:bcmwl-kernel-source:6.30.223.248+bdcom-0ubuntu7:subprocess installed
post-installation script was killed by signal (Killed)
ErrorMessage: subprocess installed post-installation script was killed by
signal (Killed)
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-01-18 (277 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Release amd64 (20141022.1)
RelatedPackageVersions:
dpkg 1.18.2ubuntu5
apt 1.0.10.2ubuntu1
SourcePackage: bcmwl
Title: package bcmwl-kernel-source 6.30.223.248+bdcom-0ubuntu7 failed to
install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script was killed by
signal (Killed)
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to wily on 2015-10-23 (0 days ago)
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