Christopher, Sorry, I should have been more clear in my previous comment. There was no checkbox for third party drivers, but I did select a checkbox for installing third party software, and that apparently also includes third party drivers (although the user has no way of knowing this).
I had a spare external USB drive so I tested this out with Ubuntu 14.10. I installed once without that checkbox unselected: the 'wl' driver did not install and everything worked perfectly. Then I reinstalled with it selected: The 'wl' driver installed and I got the same problems (installation froze, reboot froze, stack trace in dmesg). I had to use the workaround I specified in comment #8. The official Ubuntu installation instructions even advises selecting it and says "We advise you to select Download updates while installing and Install this third-party software now" ( http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/install-ubuntu-desktop ) . So although it is not installed by default, it is still too easy to install this driver which causes problems on unsupported broadcom devices. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1313221 Title: modprobe wl crashes with broadcom 4306 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/1313221/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
