I checked if compat-wireless is installed, and I think it's not. (A
quock search for "compat-wireless" in synaptic produced a bunch of
linux-backports-modules-cw-* packages, none of which is installed.)

I started experimenting again with bcmwl (see comment #3). I tried to
install it again (6.20.155.1+bdcom-0ubuntu0.0.1), but Ubuntu froze while
configuring the install. Also shortly after rebooting aptdaemon tried to
finish the unsuccessful installation, and Ubuntu froze again, so now I
will have to uninstall the package before aptdaemon can mess up my
session again. I struggled a bit to uninstall the package, the thing
that finally worked was to boot into an earlier kernel version and try
uninstalling from console via apt-get.

...

After reading through
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx and a bit of
experimenting, I finnally managed to install the linux-firmware-nonfree
package, and now the wifi funcionality is back. (The chipset is BCM4311,
PCI id is 14e4:4311.)

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  Major regression on Precise....(Fail to install and broke ALL the
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