This yielded no luck on my system and just made things worse. I'm now
running my display at a lower resolution so something happened to my nvidia
drivers. The iBus process also crashed immediately when i tried seeing if i
had any other options than a wired connection.

****Hardware****
Cpu: 4770k
Mb: asus maximus vi impact z87


On Sat, 21 Mar 2026, 17:15 Matias Larsson, <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This bug has been affecting me, so I tested the following on my PC
> running Ubuntu 24.04. Version info etc. at the end of the message.
>
> - Enabled 'proposed' source (pocket) via Updates settings GUI, developer
> options
> - $ sudo apt update
> - $ sudo apt install broadcom-sta-dkms/noble-proposed
> - I was able to confirm that the kernel modules for this package built
> successfully.
>
> Due to another bug
> (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/noble/+source/virtualbox/+bug/2136499),
> I was unable to test further for a long time. But today I was able to
> get that fix from -proposed as well.
>
> So now I can confirm that wifi connectivity works on 6.17.0-19-generic
> using broadcom-sta-dkms from noble-proposed. I have noticed an odd issue
> of unexpected prompts to "log in to network" and the wifi icon showing
> the '?' symbol. But I have no idea if this is related to the kernel
> modules. In any case, connectivity seems to work OK and I can now use
> 6.17 kernel which solves the problem for me.
>
> Thank you for the fix and information!
>
> Version info:
>
> $ apt policy broadcom-sta-dkms
> broadcom-sta-dkms:
>   Installed: 6.30.223.271-23ubuntu1.2
>   Candidate: 6.30.223.271-23ubuntu1.2
>   Version table:
>  *** 6.30.223.271-23ubuntu1.2 100
>         100 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-proposed/restricted
> amd64 Packages
>         100 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-proposed/restricted
> i386 Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      6.30.223.271-23ubuntu1.1 500
>         500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/restricted
> amd64 Packages
>         500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates/restricted
> i386 Packages
>      6.30.223.271-23ubuntu1 500
>         500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/restricted amd64
> Packages
>         500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/restricted i386
> Packages
>
> # (Reduced) System Details Report
> ---
>
> ## Hardware Information:
> - **Processor:** Intel® Core™ i5-7600K × 4
>
> ## Software Information:
> - **OS Name:** Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
> - **OS Build:** (null)
> - **OS Type:** 64-bit
> - **GNOME Version:** 46
> - **Windowing System:** X11
> - **Kernel Version:** Linux 6.17.0-19-generic
>
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>
> Title:
>   [SRU] Kernel 6.17 support in broadcom-sta
>
> Status in broadcom-sta package in Ubuntu:
>   Fix Released
> Status in broadcom-sta source package in Noble:
>   Fix Committed
> Status in broadcom-sta source package in Plucky:
>   Invalid
> Status in broadcom-sta source package in Questing:
>   Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
>   [SRU Justification]
>
>   [ Impact ]
>
>   Failed to build against kernel v6.17-rc1.
>
>   [ Test Plan ]
>
>   1. Install kernels >= 6.17. For Noble, linux-oem-6.17 is available:
>      $ sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends --yes \
>          linux-oem-6.17
>
>   2. For Questing and Noble, install also stock kernel to ensure we don't
> break existing setup:
>      $ sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends --yes \
>          linux-generic
>
>   3. Install broadcom-sta-dkms from noble -proposed pocket. The dkms
>   should rebuild itself against the running kernel automatically; if not
>   rebuild them manually with:
>
>      $ sudo dkms install --force broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271 -k $(uname -r)
>      # With Questing
>      $ dkms status
>      broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271, 6.17.0-5-generic, x86_64: installed
>      # With Noble
>      $ dkms status
>      broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271, 6.17.0-1002-oem, x86_64: installed
>      broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271, 6.8.0-81-generic, x86_64: installed
>
>   4. Reboot to load the kernel module
>   5. The wl module should be loaded automatically and wireless lan should
> be usable as before.
>   6. There should not be any UBSAN warning in dmesg, e.g.:
>      ```
>      [ 28.822952] UBSAN: array-index-out-of-bounds in
> /var/lib/dkms/broadcom-wl/6.30.223.271/build/src/wl/sys/wl_linux.c:1938:4
>      ```
>
>   [ Where problems could occur ]
>
>   This doesn't affect the rest part of the system, and it doesn't
>   introduce functional changes.
>
>   [ Other Info ]
>
>   This affects series with kernels >= 6.17. Nominate Questing and Noble
>   for fixing.
>
>   Kernel 6.17 will not be introduced in Plucky
>
>   ========== original bug report ==========
>
>   A patch to fix building for kernel 6.17-rc1 is at
>
> https://gist.github.com/joanbm/4e7f18febc2c25f5fdf8143a739dccd1?permalink_comment_id=5717588#gistcomment-5717588
>
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