Public bug reported:
Release: Ubuntu 13.10
Installation Media: Desktop CD image from a USB stick with pendrivelinux
Hardware: Dell Inspiron 3721 with a Broadcom BCM43142A0 WLAN device.
I would have expected that the live system and the installed system both
have automatic network connectivity via WLAN.
What happened instead:
1st problem: The live system didn't have WLAN network connectivity.
I was able to activate it simply by installing "bcmwl-kernel-source"
(after a lot of try and error):
sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source
(2nd problem: This is rather counter-intuitive. Why do I have to install
sources when I need a driver binary?)
3rd problem: When I booted into the installed system, network was down
again.
Here the fix was more complicated, surely too complicated for a non-
technical person:
This is what I did:
sudo dpkg -i
/media/hok/UUI/pool/main/d/dkms/dkms_2.2.0.3-1.1ubuntu4_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i /media/hok/UUI/pool/restricted/b/bcmwl/bcmwl-kernel-
source_6.30.223.141+bdcom-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Proposed solution:
These problems would be solved if the Ubuntu installer installed the
driver by default, or after detecting an appropriate device.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Ubuntu 13.10 Fresh Install on Laptop: no Network Connectivity - bcmwl
WLAN Driver not Installed
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