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When enabling the proprietary packages option on the Ubuntu installation
of xenial, bionic or cosmic x86_64 on a machine with both a wireless
card requiring the bcmwl-kernel-source package and an additional Nvidia
card present, the installation of the bcmwl-kernel-source package
doesn't occur. While the current installer doesn't allow the selected
proprietary driver packages to be viewed priorto completing their
installation, I assume the problem is, for a machine without a network
connection, that only the bcmwl-kernel-source package is available on
the Live iso image and that the absence of the nvidia packages is
fouling the installation of the bcmwl-kernel-source package.
This issue was discovered on a MacPro 3,1 which originally had a ATI
HD2600-XT graphics card as well as an Airport Extreme card. For that
combination, the xenial, bionic and cosmic installers all were able to
install the bcmwl-kernel-source package when proprietary driver package
installation was enabled in the installer. After swapping out that ATI
graphics card for a Nvidia GTX-680, I found that the xenial, bionic and
cosmic installers now failed to install the bcmwl-kernel-source package
in the presence of the Nvidia card without access to a network
connection during the installation. So I believe that the installer
needs to be more careful not to demand installation of proprietary
driver packages that are not present on the Live image in the absence of
a network connection.
Currently, one has to either connect the machine to the ethernet to
allow for network access to the repos for the installation of the bcmwl-
kernel-source package to succeed or manually install the bcmwl-kernel-
source package and its dependencies from the appropriate sub-directories
in the pool directory of the Live usb image afterwards.
** Affects: bcmwl (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: bot-comment
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bcmwl-kernel-source fails to install if Nvidia card present in the absence of a
network connection
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1798807
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