Hi Wallace; Thanks - your information is well noted. I'd like to direct your attention to the top message in this forum where it shows that my release is also 10.04 ... I went through the same process as you only I was able to do the upgrades while connected to a clear, uninterrupted broadband line.
I am a software freedom activist and hold regular installfests around New Zealand. I have generally been impressed with Ubuntu's upgrade process which I have seen restart flawlessly after a power outage half- way through. Naturally problems occur with proprietary software of which the broadcom driver is an example <insert rant against evil proprietary software />. However, this bug appears in the source rather than the binary part of the package. I can confirm your observation that wireless works out of the box with the default 10.04 installation. So does everything else *except for* dynamic switching of the graphics cards. For this I need the 2.6.35 kernel - the default for 10.10. There are other changes in the 2.6.35 kernel which other users may need ... for more details see the kernel release notes. Further, by default, 10.04 provides power to both video cards - substantially reducing batter life. (I note that the live disk uses the ATI card for output by default, but the installation used the intel one. Technically I could arrange a script to login an intel and an ati user and so use one or the other without dynamic switching ... but that does not fix the bug under discussion.) I agree that 10.10 is pretty geeky as I have observed a number of regressions using that release on other machines, ... it is not uncommon to use a short-cycle release to test out different ideas like this. This machine is mission-critical, thus I am reluctant to install 10.10 to this machine. I also, by policy, try to stick to the LTS releases. This is why I attempted to install from backports. I shall probably experiment with 11.04 on a separate partition to see if these issues have been fixed. But even if that is the case, the bug still exists for the 10.04 release which is supposed to be still in support. Thus it still needs to be fixed. The only reason I have not corrected the library locations and attached a patch is that I have guessed that others more closely associated with canonical already have the original patch from broadcom and I don't want to go reinventing the wheel. Probably all I need is a symlink or three someplace... but I have not looked closely enough to confirm this. Of course I'll get impatient quite soon and look. I'm still interested as to why the original patch was not encorporated into the package. There will be no point submitting my own patch if it too will be ignored. (BTW: putting phone no and street addr at the bottom of posts is a good way to generate spam ... unless this is not your information :) ) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/695191 Title: package bcmwl-kernel-source 5.60.48.36 bdcom-0ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: bcmwl kernel module failed to build -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
