[xubuntu-users] Problems after updating 14.04

[David Walland]

Yeah,  I've been contemplating doing the same thing, but it worked for
several days *after* the update and only disappeared suddenly after
updating!  Very annoying!  You'd think it would be worth Broadcom's while
to sort this out properly, wouldn't you?

Regards

David

On 21 September 2014 12:05, Lutz Andersohn <landersohn at gmail.com> wrote:

> I also had HUGE problems with broadcom in 14.04 after I got it to work
> with some pain in 12.04. I gave up after a few days of fiddling and
> bought a Centrino based card from Intel which worked right out of the
> box. Cost me 10 bucks and 15 min swapping the card. I had better things
> to do and spending 10 bucks was worth my time.
>
>
> On 09/20/2014 11:34 AM, David Walland wrote:
> > I have been running Xubuntu 12.04 successfully for nearly a year on my
> > old Dell Latitude D620.  This sports 2 GB memory and a 100GB SSD.
> > Recently I decided to update to 14.04.  Everything went well and for
> > some weeks the machine and 14.04 have behaved impeccably, until I ran
> > a normal set of updates.
> > I have a Broadcom 4311 wifi card on the machine and had managed to
> > make it work following information from the Internet on how to do so.
> > After this update, suddenly the wifi will no longer work and all of
> > the instructions to sort it in 14.04, I can find on the internet fail
> > to work, including the "official" Ubuntu instructions.  On startup,
> > just after starting the machine and before the desktop comes up it
> > flashes for about 1 second information which is about the problem
> > (well it says "Broadcom" but it's gone too quickly for me to read much
> > more).
> >
> > How do I hold this screen long enough to read what it says?
> >
> > How do I sort out the driver so it works given that every set of
> > instructions I've tried have failed?
> >
> > Also since the same update I now have a small black rectangle on my
> > desktop all the time.  It wasn't there before and I can't find any
> > info on the Internet about how to deal with it.  When starting, the
> > desktop loads correctly until I enter my password to go into my own
> > area when the black area reappears and is always on top.  It's about 8
> > mm from the LH edge and about 2.5 cm down from the screen top.
> >
> > Will I have to reset swappiness and the other settings I set up in
> > 12.04 to speed it up and to protect the SSD?  It's noticeably slower
> > in 14.04.
> >
> > I'm a fairly new boy at Linux so please treat me gently and explain
> > all those esoteric steps which all Linux non-newbies know and I
> > probably won't - I'm still following instructions mostly by rote.
> >
> >
> > Thanks in anticipation,
> >
> > David Walland
> >
> >
>
>
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