Has the driver for my wireless card been dropped from the kernel?

[Feathers McGraw]

I did a clean installation Kubuntu 13.10 just now, and I can't connect to my router wirelessly (ethernet still works).

Wireless on Kubuntu 13.04 works just fine (it's still installed on another partition).

Has the driver for my card been dropped? Is there somewhere I can check for things like this?

feathers@62-West-Wallaby-Street:~$ sudo lshw -c network
  *-network               
       description: Wireless interface
       product: BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: eth1
       version: 01
       serial: cc:52:af:93:cb:4a
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=6.30.223.141 (r415941) latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abg
       resources: irq:17 memory:f0100000-f0103fff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 03
       serial: 64:31:50:64:99:3b
       size: 1Gbit/s
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw ip=192.168.1.113 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s
       resources: irq:43 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:f0004000-f0004fff memory:f0000000-f0003fff memory:f0010000-f001ffff

Thanks,

Feathers

[Feathers McGraw]

Here's the output from 13.04

feathers-mcgraw@62-West-Wallaby-Street:~$ sudo lshw -c network
[sudo] password for feathers-mcgraw: 
  *-network               
       description: Network controller
       product: BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       version: 01
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
       configuration: driver=bcma-pci-bridge latency=0
       resources: irq:17 memory:f0100000-f0103fff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8111/8168 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 03
       serial: 64:31:50:64:99:3b
       size: 10Mbit/s
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8168d-2.fw latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
       resources: irq:43 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:f0004000-f0004fff memory:f0000000-f0003fff memory:f0010000-f001ffff
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 2
       logical name: wlan0
       serial: cc:52:af:93:cb:4a
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=brcmsmac driverversion=3.8.0-31-generic firmware=N/A ip=192.168.1.106 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn

The extra wireless device at the bottom here is an external wifi dongle.

I guess I should install the "bcma-pci-bridge" in Kubuntu 13.10?

Feathers

[SteveRiley]

Did you run Jockey to see if it can detect the Broadcom wireless NIC and download/install the driver?

[Feathers McGraw]

Nope. Does Jockey install proprietary drivers?

I was using free drivers on 13.04, and my experience with the prop. driver is that it causes problems for other devices trying to connect to the same router.

Feathers

[Feathers McGraw]

I realise now that Jockey is the "Additional Drivers" tool, I have used it before but didn't know it was called Jockey!

Had a look and a prop. driver was installed, but clearly it isn't working. It can find networks but when I try to connect it repeatedly asks for the WPA key. I'm not typing it in wrong, but it won't connect.

On the bright side, I quite like the new network settings interface

Feathers