Marty,

Thanks for your response. I need to install firmware. I installed and ran
b43-fwcutter.

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

See Link

http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

Everything is working great.




On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Marty Lucich <ma...@mailforce.net> wrote:

> Hi Chenna,
>
> Perhaps you are getting a different version of the package than I am?
> If I type "aptitude show bcmwl-kernel-source" it shows me:
> Version: 6.20.155.1+bdcom-0ubuntu6
>
> If you see an earlier version then maybe I have more or different
> repositories enabled in my /etc/apt/sources.list file. I do have
> backports enabled:
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-backports main restricted
> universe multiverse
>
> And also updates:
> deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring-updates main restricted
> multiverse
>
> I don't actually know where the package I have came from.  Also maybe
> you need to update your indexes?  (aptitude update)
>
> I also didn't mention that I am running Ubuntu 13.04 and a 64 bit
> kernel.  I hope there is a clue for you there somewhere.
>
> Best regards,
> Marty
>
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>
> Title:
>   bcmwl fails to build with 3.8 kernels [error: ‘struct
>   cfg80211_ibss_params’ has no member named ‘channel’]
>
> Status in “bcmwl” package in Ubuntu:
>   Fix Released
> Status in “broadcom-sta” package in Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
> Status in “bcmwl” source package in Precise:
>   Fix Committed
> Status in “broadcom-sta” source package in Precise:
>   Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>   Upcoming 3.8 kernels have broken this DKMS package.
>
>   P
>
>   SRU request:
>
>   [Impact]
>
>    * As a result of this bug, bcmwl-kernel-source will fail to build the
>   module against linux-generic-lts-raring in Ubuntu 12.04.
>
>   [Test Case]
>
>    * Enable the precise-proposed repository and install bcmwl-kernel-
>   source (6.20.155.1+bdcom-0ubuntu0.0.2).
>
>    * Install linux-generic-lts-raring
>
>    * If the package installs without errors from DKMS with both the
>   linux-generic and lts-raring kernels, then the patches work correctly.
>
>   [Regression Potential]
>
>    * The patches that I backported from 13.10 will preserve the current
>   driver behaviour on linux-generic (3.2) and linux-generic-lts-quantal
>   (3.5), thanks to the use of specific macros in the code which check
>   the kernel version. As a result, no regressions of any kind can be
>   expected on these kernels.
>
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