I recently had the need to compile this against Linux 4.13 (from current
xenial hwe-edge).
I was able to use patches 0023-add-support-for-Linux-4.11.patch and 0024
-add-support-for-Linux-4.12.patch from bcmwl_6.30.223.271+bdcom-
0ubuntu1~1.2 as the basis for creating 0014-add-support-for-
Thank you Gerry for the 6.20 driver for Xenial! I gave a second life to
my mackbook 4,1 with LinuxMint 18.1 and found the 6.30 version unstable.
The opensource driver was limited to non-N speeds.
I searched a full week before finding this post, thanks again!
Brad
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Hey again folks,
I've forward ported the 6.20 version of the bcmwl driver to work with Xenial,
as I also find 6.30 is unusably unstable on Xenial. I'm just pushing the source
here:
lp:~gerboland/+junk/bcmwl_kernel_source-6.20/
It's rough & ready, but should work.
I will put a pre-built package
As this probably won't ever get fixed, just some hint for affected
people that the above package won't compile against xenial's 4.2 kernel.
However, you can get working wifi in xenial by downgrading to kernel
3.19 and using Gerry's package above.
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Confirming that Gerry's package works fine for me on my home wifi
(MacBook Pro 10,1). In Areas with a mesh of hotspots for the same
network (large office) I had some system lockups with the forward-ported
6.20 driver.
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For the record, I've a MacBook Pro 8,1 using broadcom 4331 chip. I find
the bcmwl 6.30 driver consistently unreliable, packets just stop sending
randomly and only solution is module unload reload. I've had much more
success (not perfect tho, but 99% reliable) with the older 6.20 driver.
I spent
** Description changed:
1) Utopic Unicorn 14.10
2) mzanetti@noneyet ~ $ apt-cache policy bcmwl-kernel-source
bcmwl-kernel-source:
Installed: 6.30.223.248+bdcom-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 6.30.223.248+bdcom-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 6.30.223.248+bdcom-0ubuntu1 0
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Title:
14e4:4331 [MacBookPro10,1] bcmwl-kernel-source = 6.30.223.30+bdcom-
0ubuntu1 fails to see 5GHz
For what it is worth (hoping this is the right place to post), the
stability issues at least, in general, were solved for me by applying
the 'linux-recent.patch' from the broadcom-wl AUR tarball (which seems
to include the null point fix as well):
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/broadcom-wl/
I have added a bug with a description of a patch that fixes a possibly
related null pointer crash at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/1415880 – judging
from the comments on the AUR page, it could very well solve this
problem.
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I've contacted Broadcom as suggested on the 30th of October but didn't
get a reply so far.
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Michael Zanetti, you may want to just call them to see if they have an
internal case system you may get a tracking number for.
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Michael Zanetti, regarding b43 not working as expected, you would want
to file a new report following
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx#b43_driver so
that the firmware (or other root cause) gets fixed, and allows for your
chip to work as expected.
Regarding
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