Public bug reported:
This bug is applicable to Broadcom BCM43228 (miniPCI-E) wireless module
Hi, wanted to share my solution for this troublesome PCI wireless card, as I've
found out that this is quite hard to find correct stable driver on the internet.
Official Bdroadcom drivers for this WLAN card newer that 2013 is broken.
Wireless connection on all access points I've tested randomly started to
degrade over time ending in total abscense of network access while remaining
associated with AP, so only manual reconnection helped. This problem occurs in
both Windows and Linux, so it definitely related with closed-source drivers. At
this point anyone here will suggest to switch to b43 driver, and this one will
definitely will do, BUT you'll be staying with 54 Mbps on 802.11g.
So, I've found broadcom-sta-dkms package for Ubuntu which is old enough to be
stable, but here comes 2nd trouble: this package is not actually maintained
anymore, so you can't use in on newer kernels because of API changing over
time, so it doesn't actually compile. Newest available alternative is
bcmwl-kernel-source, but has a problem with disconnects as described above.
So I'm attaching an archive with some backported API fixes for kernel
upto 4.2.0-27 (haven't tested in newer kernels above this one) and small
README how to apply this to an installed broadcom-sta-dkms package which
failed to build and install.
I hope this information helps people with the same trouble, as I'm
definitely not the only one with this.
I'd appreciate if package maintaners bother to publish this fix
officially.
** Affects: broadcom-sta (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Patch added: "Fix for broadcom-sta-dkms ver. 6.30.223.141-1 to build on
kernels up to 4.2"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1550608/+attachment/4582281/+files/broadcom-sta-dkms-fix.tar.gz
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broadcom-sta-dkms doesn't compile on new kernels (SOLUTION)
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