Trusty release has gone end of support for this package, so marking this as such.
Newer releases will have this fix though. ** Changed in: bcmwl (Ubuntu Trusty) Status: Fix Committed => Won't Fix -- 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/1490713 Title: The Debian control file's "modaliases" is too generic Status in bcmwl package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in bcmwl source package in Trusty: Won't Fix Bug description: Software-properties-gtk offers wl as the driver for all Broadcom wifi cards, regardless of whether they are supported or not. This is due to the modaliases field used by the bcmwl-kernel-source package. Although in reality I know very little about such things, I'll attach a proposed debian/bcmwl-kernel-source.modaliases file based on the info here: http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README_6.30.223.248.txt Users are going through needless painful procedures to get the correct working driver. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/1490713/+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