It seems I can't really test bcmwl-kernel-source using a live iso on the
little USB drive I had available. (The 1Gb casper-rw persistence file
fills up REALLY fast, and the system becomes unbootable.) SO I haven't
yet tested the problem as I reported it. I'll have to drag out a larger
drive.
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@Tommy,
I am using 64-bit, and actually am using kernel 3.10 with precise.
Now in the very same page you posted if you look at linux-generic you
see it points to linux-image-generic which points to linux-
image-3.2.0-51-generic.
I cannot say 100% but an average LTS user (doing only security
@Bernardo,
I see your point. However, I have not tested the package using the current LTS
kernel on that hardware, and indeed I recently did a fresh install of Ubuntu
13.04 on that netbook and was impressed the Broadcom network works much more
reliably without doing anything at all.
I am not
Bug expired because somebody decides this is probably irrelevant,
based on the false assumption that kernel 3.8 is in precise now.
Last time I looked (http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/linux-image-
generic), the precise kernel is 3.2.0-51, in both precise and precise-
updates.
People using a
This probably isn't the place for this discussion but I checked
http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/kernel/ and see that the 3.8 kernel
is available HOWEVER apparently only for 64 bit x86 SMP as a security
update, which is probably where the confusion lies. I gather you aren't
using 64 bit packages
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