[Bug 1490713] Re: The Debian control file's "modaliases" is too generic

[Adam Conrad]

Hello Adam, or anyone else affected,

Accepted bcmwl into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be
available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/6.30.223.271
+bdcom-0ubuntu1~0.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed
repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

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bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to
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Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
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advance!

** Changed in: bcmwl (Ubuntu Trusty)
       Status: New => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed

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Title:
  The Debian control file's "modaliases" is too generic

Status in bcmwl package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in bcmwl source package in Trusty:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  Software-properties-gtk offers wl as the driver for all Broadcom wifi
  cards, regardless of whether they are supported or not.  This is due
  to the modaliases field used by the bcmwl-kernel-source package.

  Although in reality I know very little about such things, I'll attach
  a proposed debian/bcmwl-kernel-source.modaliases file based on the
  info here:
  http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README_6.30.223.248.txt

  Users are going through needless painful procedures to get the correct
  working driver.

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