Public bug reported:
The propreitory driver Broadcom STA (packaged as 'bcmwl-kernel-source',
provides 'wl' kernel module) gets autoinstalled upon Ubuntu 12.04.4
installation on systems with Broadcom BCM4313 (14e4:4727) wireless cards. Upto
Ubuntu 12.04.3 with 3.8 kernel, this was good behaviour. But, with 3.11 kernel
used in Ubuntu 13.10 and Ubuntu 12.04.4, the official open source 'brcmsmac'
driver had improved (with the newly implemented AdHoc and AP mode, and other
improvements) over propreitory 'wl'. On newer kernel versions, 'brcmsmac' works
better than 'wl'.
Autoinstalling the 'wl' driver would actually be a "downgrade" of
functionality. I understand that there are some cards work only with 'wl', but
it's better not to do autoinstall of 'bcmwl-kernel-source' on the ones
supported by 'brcmsmac'. It maybe offered on the jockey Additional Drivers
list, though I don't see any reason why anyone would prefer 'wl' over
'brcmsmac' now. I don't know if this issue remains on Ubuntu 14.04LTS's jockey
merged with 'ubuntu-drivers' package. But, if it does that has to be fixed too.
I hope this issue is fixed soon, so that Ubuntu 12.04.5 is released with the
fixed jockey.
** Affects: jockey (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: 12.04.4
** Tags added: 12.04.4
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1306928
Title:
Broadcom STA driver gets autoinstalled on BCM4313, where it's no
longer needed
Status in “jockey” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
The propreitory driver Broadcom STA (packaged as 'bcmwl-kernel-source',
provides 'wl' kernel module) gets autoinstalled upon Ubuntu 12.04.4
installation on systems with Broadcom BCM4313 (14e4:4727) wireless cards. Upto
Ubuntu 12.04.3 with 3.8 kernel, this was good behaviour. But, with 3.11 kernel
used in Ubuntu 13.10 and Ubuntu 12.04.4, the official open source 'brcmsmac'
driver had improved (with the newly implemented AdHoc and AP mode, and other
improvements) over propreitory 'wl'. On newer kernel versions, 'brcmsmac' works
better than 'wl'.
Autoinstalling the 'wl' driver would actually be a "downgrade" of
functionality. I understand that there are some cards work only with 'wl', but
it's better not to do autoinstall of 'bcmwl-kernel-source' on the ones
supported by 'brcmsmac'. It maybe offered on the jockey Additional Drivers
list, though I don't see any reason why anyone would prefer 'wl' over
'brcmsmac' now. I don't know if this issue remains on Ubuntu 14.04LTS's jockey
merged with 'ubuntu-drivers' package. But, if it does that has to be fixed too.
I hope this issue is fixed soon, so that Ubuntu 12.04.5 is released with the
fixed jockey.
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