[Bug 1796544] Re: [regression] Cosmic ISO contains no working wifi driver for Macbook Air

[Daniel van Vugt]

In the cosmic live session:

$ ubuntu-drivers list
bcmwl-kernel-source

And yes you're right - the driver is in the ISO, but under
/cdrom/pool...

For some reason I thought any restricted drivers available in the ISO
would be active before the installer started. So choosing "Restricted
Add-ons" while I had no wifi would be pointless. But it's not. I think
this behaviour has changed compared to older releases.

So this bug is invalid in the original form. I will reword it into
something that's a real bug. Thanks :)

** Summary changed:

- [regression] Cosmic ISO contains no working wifi driver for Macbook Air
+ Macbook Air wifi driver (bcmwl-kernel-source) is not active in a live session till you run the installer

** Description changed:

- Cosmic ISO (20181004) contains no working wifi driver for Macbook Air.
- 
- In previous releases it contained package bcmwl-kernel-source for the
- 'wl' kernel module but not any more. Is that intentional?
+ Macbook Air wifi driver (bcmwl-kernel-source) is not active (installed)
+ in a live session till you run the installer (AND choose restricted
+ addons).

** Changed in: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Medium => Low

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Title:
  Macbook Air wifi driver (bcmwl-kernel-source) is not active in a live
  session till you run the installer

Status in ubuntu-meta package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Macbook Air wifi driver (bcmwl-kernel-source) is not active
  (installed) in a live session till you run the installer (AND choose
  restricted addons).

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