Dell Inspiron 1525, Upgraded to 12.04 and have lost Wireless Internet Connection

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Wireless doesn't work on a Broadcom BCM4312

I've just upgraded my Dell Inspiron 1525 to 12.04. Wireless connection worked before, but now it doesn't. I can't seem to start the driver. I remember having to activate it manually for the last version and it worked fine but it doesn't with this new 12.04 upgrade.

When I go to "Additional Drivers", I am shown one option named "Broadcom STA wireless driver". When I try to activate it, I get this message:

Sorry, installation of this driver failed. Please have a look at the log file for details: /var/log/jockey.log

The message entered into the log is:

2012-04-26 22:17:36,194 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled, bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: blacklisted, b43legacy: blacklisted 2012-04-26 22:17:36,491 WARNING: modinfo for module wl failed: ERROR: modinfo: could not find module wl

2012-04-26 22:17:36,492 WARNING: /sys/module/wl/drivers does not exist, cannot rebind wl driver 2012-04-26 22:17:36,556 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled, bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: blacklisted, b43legacy: blacklisted

Can anyone help please?

Solution

@rdeth use sudo apt-get remove bcmwl-kernel-source command to remove and then install again using additional drivers interface it worked like that for me

Comments

[mikewhatever]

Try running sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source.

[saiki4116]

is your notebook 64 bit?

[user56926]

32-bit. I tried that but it said that I already had the most up-to-date driver. Instead, I removed it using "sudo apt-get install bcmwl-kernel-source" and then installed it again, through the "Additional Drivers" gui. Not sure why, but it worked. Thanks!

[Admin]

Could you explain further how you got it working. I ran into the same problem. I tried what you said but still could not get it to work.

[hughdbrown]

+1 I have exactly this machine and had exactly this problem. Removing bcmwl-kernel-source and then reinstalling through Additional Drivers worked to restore wireless on my Broadcom Corporation BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n.