Ok, after some new attempts I can file a report of what's going on.
I tried again with a live session on a daily ubuntu image. By issuing manually
inside a shell the command
sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source
the wireless network is immediately recognised.
So I decided to try this same
Vincenzo Costa, this would appear to be a downstream packaging issue.
However, I am closing this report because as per your comment
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/1397383/comments/9
this bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu -
Vivid Vervet.
This is a
I tried with the latest ubuntu image, via unetbootin and a USB drive.
Once opened the live session I checked the wireless network: it doesn't
work!
Here are the checking commands an their outputs:
apt-cache policy bcmwl-kernel-source
Vincenzo Costa, just to advise, the live environment won't ever work if
you don't actually install the bcmwl-kernel-source module (i.e. install
proprietary software via Additional Drivers). Did you do this in the
live environment?
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