<div dir="ltr"><div>et al:</div><div><br></div><div>Again after rebooting tried to add Broadcom back in Add'l drivers, this time it errored out. Went to Muon Package manager and searched "bcmwl-kernel-source" and found it was "installed" . . . tried to "reinstall" it, but got an error as well.</div><div><br></div><div>Went to try to install synaptic to see if it would show or do anything more via console and it showed:</div><div><br></div><div>[CODE] Setting up synaptic (0.90.2) ...<br>Setting up bcmwl-kernel-source (6.30.223.271+bdcom-0ubuntu7) ...<br>Removing old bcmwl-6.30.223.271+bdcom DKMS files...<br><br>------------------------------<br>Deleting module version: 6.30.223.271+bdcom<br>completely from the DKMS tree.<br>------------------------------<br>Done.<br>Loading new bcmwl-6.30.223.271+bdcom DKMS files...<br>Building for 5.10.0-14-generic<br>Building for architecture x86_64<br>Building initial module for 5.10.0-14-generic<br>ERROR: Cannot create report: [Errno 17] File exists: '/var/crash/bcmwl-kernel-source.0.crash'<br>Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.10.0-14-generic (x86_64)<br>Consult /var/lib/dkms/bcmwl/6.30.223.271+bdcom/build/make.log for more information.<br>dpkg: error processing package bcmwl-kernel-source (--configure):<br> installed bcmwl-kernel-source package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10<br>Setting up libextutils-pkgconfig-perl (1.16-1.1) ...<br>Setting up libcairo-perl:amd64 (1.109-1) ...<br>Setting up libglib-perl:amd64 (3:1.329.3-1build1) ...<br>Setting up libcairo-gobject-perl (1.005-2build1) ...<br>Setting up libglib-object-introspection-perl (0.049-1build1) ...<br>Setting up libgtk3-perl (0.038-1) ...<br>Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...<br>Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.33-0ubuntu2) ...<br>Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ...<br>Processing triggers for mailcap (3.68ubuntu1) ...<br>Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.26-1ubuntu1) ...<br>Errors were encountered while processing:<br> bcmwl-kernel-source<br>E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) [/CODE]</div><div><br></div><div>So, wired connection is working, but wifi driver seems busted . . . ???<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 11:11 AM Fritz Hudnut <<a href="mailto:este.el.paz@gmail.com">este.el.paz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>et al:</div><div><br></div><div>So on reboot I went & checked wifi and no go. I went to Add'l Drivers and I changed driver settings for Broadcom to "do not use" anf then rather than rebooting I tried to again "use the device" and it gave an error: "
<p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px;white-space:pre-wrap">pk-client-error-quark: Error while installing package: installed bcmwl-kernel-source package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 10 (313)"</p><p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;text-indent:0px;white-space:pre-wrap">I'll try to reboot and then try again to add it back in.<br></p></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 11:01 AM Fritz Hudnut <<a href="mailto:este.el.paz@gmail.com" target="_blank">este.el.paz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 6, 2021 at 9:53 AM James Lockie <<a href="mailto:bjlockie@lockie.ca" target="_blank">bjlockie@lockie.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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