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October 2nd, 2015 09:00

Broadcom wireless and channels 12/13

Upon our request, Broadcom developed and released a new version of their wireless driver, which supports channels 12 and 13. We're working with Canonical to get it packaged as a .deb and into Ubuntu.

For the curious, it's here:

http://www.broadcom.com/support/?gid=1 (version 6.30.223.271)

We recommend that you do not try using this driver tarball from Broadcom directly. If you do end up trying to, note that it's not supported by Dell.

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    derxen

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    Posted October 2nd, 2015 11:00

    Great! Good work. Does it also bring other improvements apart from the channels?

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    Posted October 2nd, 2015 12:00

    Great news!!! Thanks a lot for sharing this!

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    Posted October 2nd, 2015 12:00

    Does it also bring other improvements apart from the channels?

    I'm checking

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    Posted October 2nd, 2015 13:00

    http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README_6.30.223.271.txt

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    Posted October 3rd, 2015 00:00

    Thanks Jared. The release notes are not very informative, unfortunately. They only mention support for 3.19 kernels. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

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    Posted October 3rd, 2015 04:00

    Just for curiosity: who was the genius who thought that selling a Linux laptop with proprietary wifi drivers was a good idea?

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    darkbasic

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    Posted October 3rd, 2015 04:00

    Just for curiosity: who was the genius who thought that selling a Linux laptop with proprietaries wifi drivers was a good idea?

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    Posted October 4th, 2015 09:00

    They have explained that they did not have a choice. It seems to me it was either sell a Linux laptop with proprietary wifi drivers or do not sell a Linux laptop. Once they show there is demand, they will get more autonomy.

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    Posted October 4th, 2015 10:00

    Thanks a lot for the hint

    The posted link to the releasenotes doesn't contain any hint at all wrt the additional channels, so without your post I wouldn't have bothered to try them out..

    I can confirm that with the ...271 driver  the channels are available and usable \o/

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/1415880 unfortunately is not integrated (but I could drop all other patches from my distro's package)

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    Posted October 4th, 2015 15:00

    Thanks a lot for the hint

    The posted link to the releasenotes doesn't contain any hint at all wrt the additional channels, so without your post I wouldn't have bothered to try them out..

    I can confirm that with the ...271 driver  the channels are available and usable \o/

    That's great news! I've passed along your post to Canonical to let them know we have confirmation that it makes bands 12/13 work so that they're aware that this fixes this outstanding bug. I have no ETA on when the new driver will make it into the various Ubuntu releases but will try to update you all once we have that information.

    And yes, the only way we knew that this new driver was supposed to fix this issue is because we were the ones who asked Broadcom to fix this bug.

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