Public bug reported: When enabling the proprietary packages option on the Ubuntu installation of xenial, bionic or cosmic x86_64 on a machine with both a wireless card requiring the bcmwl-kernel-source package and an additional Nvidia card present, the installation of the bcmwl-kernel-source package doesn't occur. While the current installer doesn't allow the selected proprietary driver packages to be viewed priorto completing their installation, I assume the problem is, for a machine without a network connection, that only the bcmwl-kernel-source package is available on the Live iso image and that the absence of the nvidia packages is fouling the installation of the bcmwl-kernel-source package.
This issue was discovered on a MacPro 3,1 which originally had a ATI HD2600-XT graphics card as well as an Airport Extreme card. For that combination, the xenial, bionic and cosmic installers all were able to install the bcmwl-kernel-source package when proprietary driver package installation was enabled in the installer. After swapping out that ATI graphics card for a Nvidia GTX-680, I found that the xenial, bionic and cosmic installers now failed to install the bcmwl-kernel-source package in the presence of the Nvidia card without access to a network connection during the installation. So I believe that the installer needs to be more careful not to demand installation of proprietary driver packages that are not present on the Live image in the absence of a network connection. Currently, one has to either connect the machine to the ethernet to allow for network access to the repos for the installation of the bcmwl- kernel-source package to succeed or manually install the bcmwl-kernel- source package and its dependencies from the appropriate sub-directories in the pool directory of the Live usb image afterwards. ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Summary changed: - bcmwl-kernel-source fails to install if Nvidia card present + bcmwl-kernel-source fails to install if Nvidia card present in the absence of a network connection -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1798807 Title: bcmwl-kernel-source fails to install if Nvidia card present in the absence of a network connection To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1798807/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs