Thanks, Christopher... I hope the following helps!
brian@bacchus:~$ lspci -vvnn | grep -A 11 Network
04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g
LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card [1028:000c]
Control: I/O- Mem+
Brian Burch, just to clarify, bcmwl is the meta package name on
Launchpad, associated with bcmwl-kernel-source. This is confirmed via
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl .
Despite this, did you actually run the command? If so, please post the
result of the command to this report.
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I have just re-executed the command apport-collect 1360783 while the
broadcom adapter was active, without sudo permission.
It failed with a popup window titled Updating Problem Report and the
text No additional information collected.
Here is the console log:
brian@bacchus:~$ apport-collect
Brian Burch, could you please execute the following in a terminal and post the
results to this report:
lspci -vvnn | grep -A 11 Network
lsb_release -rd
uname -a
apt-cache policy bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo dmidecode -s bios-version
sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date
sudo dmidecode -s
Brian Burch, thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to
make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command, as it will
automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
apport-collect 1360783
When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using
Sorry Chris, but your suggested command failed because it was looking
for a package called bcmwl. The package installed, as quoted in my bug
subject, is bcmwl-kernel-source. This is because it is installed as a
dkms module that has to be compiled against the appropriate kernel
headers.
I don't
brian@bacchus:~/scratch$ dpkg -l | grep bcmwl
ii bcmwl-kernel-source6.30.223.141+bdcom-0ubuntu2
i386 Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA wireless driver source
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I don't know how the package name was over-ridden by the last bug I had
worked on! It has nothing to do with openjdk!!
** Package changed: openjdk-7 (Ubuntu) = bcmwl (Ubuntu)
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