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** Tags added: removal-candidate -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to bcmwl in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1490713 Title: The Debian control file's "modaliases" is too generic Status in bcmwl package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in bcmwl source package in Trusty: Fix Committed Bug description: Software-properties-gtk offers wl as the driver for all Broadcom wifi cards, regardless of whether they are supported or not. This is due to the modaliases field used by the bcmwl-kernel-source package. Although in reality I know very little about such things, I'll attach a proposed debian/bcmwl-kernel-source.modaliases file based on the info here: http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README_6.30.223.248.txt Users are going through needless painful procedures to get the correct working driver. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/1490713/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
