Had issues with the natty version of the driver, since switching on/off via Fn-F6 (Dell) did not work, driver did not come up again (but after reboot + right timing of Fn-F6 during reboot). rmmod/modprobe did not reenable wireless.
Finally resolved my issues with the not fully funcional driver by installing and pinning the old 5.60 driver from maverick http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/i386/bcmwl-kernel-source/download and additionally setting power management iwconfig eth1 power off to resolve steady disconnection/connetion problem [1] This iwconfig has to be issued after switching off/on wireless, and these solutions did not work: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1597874 so I set up a 1 minute cron job to do this for me: # m h dom mon dow command * * * * * /sbin/iwconfig eth1 power off Well, that seems to work (although a heavy weight solution). Hm, will wait with upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10 then, if it breaks this. [1] Aug 31 19:53:39 ubuntubox wpa_supplicant[1013]: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=00:16:9d:44:c0:40 reason=0 Aug 31 19:53:39 ubuntubox NetworkManager[865]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: associating -> disconnected Aug 31 19:53:40 ubuntubox wpa_supplicant[1013]: Associated with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx Aug 31 19:53:40 ubuntubox wpa_supplicant[1013]: CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx completed (reauth) [id=0 id_str=] Aug 31 19:53:40 ubuntubox NetworkManager[865]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: disconnected -> associated Aug 31 19:53:40 ubuntubox NetworkManager[865]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: associated -> completed Aug 31 19:53:43 ubuntubox NetworkManager[865]: <info> (eth1): roamed from BSSID (none) ((none)) to xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (MYESSID) Aug 31 19:53:50 ubuntubox wpa_supplicant[1013]: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx reason=0 Aug 31 19:53:50 ubuntubox NetworkManager[865]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: completed -> disconnected Aug 31 19:53:50 ubuntubox NetworkManager[865]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: disconnected -> scanning P.S: Broadcom, somebody of you reading this? Try to fix your driver stuff, please. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/732677 Title: bcmwl 5.100.82.38+bdcom-0ubuntu2 not work on BCM4311 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/732677/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
