So, we would need the brcmsmac driver. And blacklist the bcma driver.
After a long journey, found out that 11.04 just works out of the box (later releases also dont work properly with the wireless driver)
A second repair action (after my brother "accidently" upgraded his ubuntu) took again many hours, I finally decided to use the latest Mint (13 , "Maya") distribution, and figured out the wireless works after installing the restricted drivers (via the standard Ubuntu configuration menu), and manually blacklisting the following drivers:
My daughter's Lenovo Thinkpad E135 had the same louzy wireless driver, I managed to get that one working by just installing the bcmwl-kernel-source package.
Installatie Ubuntu on a HP Pavilion G6, pfff....#
So, we would need the brcmsmac driver. And blacklist the bcma driver.
After a long journey, found out that 11.04 just works out of the box (later releases also dont work properly with the wireless driver)
A second repair action (after my brother "accidently" upgraded his ubuntu) took again many hours, I finally decided to use the latest Mint (13 , "Maya") distribution, and figured out the wireless works after installing the restricted drivers (via the standard Ubuntu configuration menu), and manually blacklisting the following drivers:
My daughter's Lenovo Thinkpad E135 had the same louzy wireless driver, I managed to get that one working by just installing the bcmwl-kernel-source package.
The list of modules now looks like this:
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