I believe I'm affected by this bug. I'm running Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail on a Lenovo S10-3 ideapad (netbook) with a 32-bit processor and the Broadcom BCM4313 chipset. I have the bcmwl-kernel-source package installed. For other non-professional users of Ubuntu, to figure out what wireless chipset you have follow the instructions here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx , and to find out what packages are installed go here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/17823/how-to-list-all-installed-packages .
My computer ignores broadcast ARP requests, which breaks ping and Samba. My troubleshooting process is described here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2172373&p=12778960#post12778960 . I'll try the work-around of adding a static ARP entry for all the other computers on my network. I've been running the current release versions of Ubuntu since 2010, and ping and Samba worked until I loaded Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail. I suppose I got a new version of the driver with the bug in it when I upgraded from Ubuntu 12.10 Quantum Quetzal. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to bcmwl in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414724 Title: wl driver (Broadcom) does not receive ARP packets (broadcasts) Status in “bcmwl” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: It seems that the wl driver in kernel-2.6.28-14 restricted modules (x86_64) does not receive ARP broadcast packets (possibly, it does not receive broadcast packets at all). Symptom: have two hosts A (your machine with wl and Broadcom) and B on the same Ethernet network. Boot them up. Do *not* connect or ping B from A. At this point, the ARP cache on B does not know the MAC address for A. Try ssh from B to A, it won't find the host. Do a single ping from A to B (which creates an entry for A in B's ARP cache). ssh from B to A then works. The problem can of course be worked around by hardcoding the MAC address of the Broadcom/wl host in the ARP caches of the other machines on the network, but this is quite unwieldy. I suspect the driver does not process Ethernet broadcasts, but I may be wrong (I haven't checked). ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl Package: linux-restricted-modules 2.6.28.14.19 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: linux-meta Uname: Linux 2.6.28-14-generic x86_64 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/414724/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
