This seems to have hit multiple users, see e.g. a post on Ask Ubuntu: https://askubuntu.com/q/1356061
-- 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/1940722 Title: Package bcmwl-kernel-source version 6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu7~20.04.3 is not installed because apt thinks it’s a downgrade Status in bcmwl package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: 1) Ubuntu release: 20.04 2) Installed package version: 6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu7 3) Expectation: bcmwl-kernel-source version 6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu7~20.04.3 was released to focal-updates to fix LP: #1932159 (building the kernel module with HWE kernel 5.11 on Ubuntu 20.04). The bcmwl-kernel-source package should be updated to the version in focal-updates. 4) Actual result: apt considers the package from focal-updates a downgrade, leaving the system with broken WiFi after updating to the HWE kernel. $ apt-cache policy bcmwl-kernel-source bcmwl-kernel-source: Installed: 6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu7 Candidate: 6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu7 Version table: *** 6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu7 100 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu7~20.04.3 500 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/restricted amd64 Packages 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/restricted amd64 Packages 6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu5 500 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/restricted amd64 Packages $ sudo apt install bcmwl-kernel-source=6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu7~20.04.3 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libllvm11 libllvm11:i386 shim Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be DOWNGRADED: bcmwl-kernel-source 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 downgraded, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 1,546 kB of archives. After this operation, 8,192 B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/1940722/+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
