Bernardo,
The problem for some users seems to be that the wrong driver is being
used. For myself and some others who commented here, using a different
driver made the the card work and didn't print the messages. Those
messages may be indicating a problem; if so, hiding them might not be
the right thing to do.
This is all complicated by the fact that some people on this report use
Raring and others use Precise. This is confusing because:
1. Raring uses 3.8, but Precise recently had 3.8 backported to it.
2. Precise had bcmwl 5.100.x but now has 6.20.x.
3. IIRC there were some problems building bcmwl on Precise that have since
been fixed.
And it's also complicated by the facts that:
1. The reporter of this bug didn't report his hardware.
2. Not everyone on this report is using the same hardware.
3. Not everyone on this report is using the same version of Ubuntu.
>From reading over 100 bug reports on bcmwl yesterday, my best
understanding is that this bug is either:
a) a dupe of bug 1097519, meaning that if the best driver is selected by
Ubuntu, the messages will not be printed and the card will work
properly; or
b) a bug in which a newer driver was imperfectly backported to a
backported kernel, leaving it in a state in which it performs correctly
but prints useless errors.
Since we don't know everyone's hardware here, and since some are talking
about Precise and some about Raring, and since the bug was originally
filed against Raring, I don't think this bug is about option B. If that
bug exists, I think it should be filed separately. But I'm not sure if
that bug really exists, because it appears to me that when the right
driver is used, the messages stop. From my understanding, the reporter
of this bug probably can solve his problem by using the proper driver.
So my best understanding is that this is still a dupe of bug 1097519.
If my reasoning is wrong, please explain.
** Changed in: bcmwl (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
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