Wireless broken after partial upgrade

[Brian McKee]

On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Jamie Griffin <jpg at gmx.com> wrote:
> I am using Jaunty and this morning the update manager popped up with an option to do a partial upgrade. I selected to run it and it completed without any errors. However, when i rebooted the machine my wireless connection is no longer available.

> A newer kernel has been installed, from 2.6.28.11 to 2.6.28.12, and with the newer kernel i think the driver for my wireless card is not present. I've booted from the older kernel and wireless connection is working as it should.

> It's not  too much of a problem because i have, at least, got a kernel that is functioning with my all of my hardware but i would like to sort it out if possible and need some advice on how to go about that.

> With the older kernel, the driver in use is the Broadcom STA wireless driver. My wireless card is Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g. If i boot using the newer kernel do i just need to download the driver and install it; and can i do that using the package manager (apt, aptitude, synaptic, etc) or do i have to get it from the Broadcom site?

IIUC, it should not have done that - it should have upgraded the
driver when it upgraded the kernel. (Somebody jump on me if I'm
missing something)

To me, this is a 'file a bug report' issue as the system failed.  I'd
keep right on using the older kernel for a little bit while you do
some research and find out when they are going to fix that.

Brian