Oliver Arnold, to advise, someone standing up a personal blog and
claiming to work on something isn't enough information to conclude that
the blog owner will ultimately be providing a code fix, will be
providing a code fix soon, or that the upstream linux kernel maintainers
and developers are
Nell Hardcastle, as per
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-
firmware.git/commit/?id=d19609d9c806e329c1e1e8e38f2ef6e5a90febc9 the
firmware is already added for your device.
Hence, if you are interested in expediting the software being released,
you would want to test it
Nell Hardcastle, this bug report is being closed due to your last
comment
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1520878/comments/6
regarding you no longer have the hardware. For future reference you can
manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in
the
Moepi has the following info on the wireless stuff:
http://moepi.net/?page_id=213
Wireless: I’m testing a new firmware built that seems to solve the
remaining issues. It has to be tested another couple of days but given
the effort Broadcom was taking in the past 2 weeks it is more than
likely
I had not tested the proprietary driver yet, but it crashes when I
modprobe it. Attached is the dmesg output from that.
So neither driver works but I think this card should work with brcmfmac
(driver loads but doesn't find firmware).
** Attachment added: "Dmesg from wl driver"
Nell Hardcastle, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu
better.
To clarify, you are noting that both:
1) In a default install of Ubuntu wireless doesn't work.
2) Installing the proprietary drivers doesn't work either as outlined in
** Description changed:
- I think this requires fixes in the upcoming 4.4 kernel and updated
- firmware from Broadcom (see http://moepi.net/?page_id=213 for some
- discussion of it).
+ Open source drivers don't work for this card. It appears that it
+ requires updated firmware from Broadcom as
Nell Hardcastle, regarding the proprietary drivers not working, please file a
new report for that via a terminal:
ubuntu-bug bcmwl
Please feel free to subscribe me to it.
Regarding the scope of this report (open source driver) as per
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211
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