Public bug reported:

I use a BCM43228 card in my laptop. I installed the broadcom-sta package
from the repos and ended up with no wifi at all.

The day before I used it under Fedora 23, which uses the latest version
of the driver: https://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/hybrid-v35_64
-nodebug-pcoem-6_30_223_271.tar.gz

So I removed the ubuntu package, downloaded the sources from broadcom,
compiled it myself, installed it and loaded the module. But still no
wifi.

I checked the Fedora 23 sources and saw that they applied a patch for
kernel versions >= 4.3, which you can find here:
https://github.com/rpmfusion/wl-kmod/blob/master/wl-kmod-
004_kernel_4.3_rdtscl_to_rdtsc.patch

I applied the patch, recompiled, reinstalled, reloaded and now it works.

Please add the patch to the ubuntu package.

** Affects: broadcom-sta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: xenial

** Tags added: xenial

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  Broadcom STA not working (at least BCM43228) without patch

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