Need an update-manager hook for bcmwl

Bug #381684 reported by Mario Limonciello
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
bcmwl (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Tim Gardner
update-manager (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Michael Vogt

Bug Description

For users upgrading from Jaunty, there needs to be a query whether the 'wl' kernel module was in use. If it was, update-manager should mark bcmwl-kernel-source to be installed.

More ideally, it would be best if the whole Jockey hook was ran in case the blacklist file wasn't used in Jaunty but is now necessary with karmic. (Some adapters now load b43/ssb in karmic even though b43 doesn't support them yet)

Changed in bcmwl (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)
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Matt Drake (mattduckman) wrote :

Not everyone has a broadcom wireless card though. I feel that this transition should be handled by jockey instead. It should detect when restricted hardware is in use and let the user know their option of installing a restricted module. Right now that doesn't happen, and I had to install bcmwl-kernel-source manually.

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Mario Limonciello (superm1) wrote : Re: [Bug 381684] Re: Need to produce a transitional binary package for LRM

Hi matt:

That's a two part separate bug: bug 381682 and bug 381683

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 23:02, mattduckman <email address hidden> wrote:

> Not everyone has a broadcom wireless card though. I feel that this
> transition should be handled by jockey instead. It should detect when
> restricted hardware is in use and let the user know their option of
> installing a restricted module. Right now that doesn't happen, and I
> had to install bcmwl-kernel-source manually.
>
> --
> Need to produce a transitional binary package for LRM
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/381684
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Matt Drake (mattduckman) wrote : Re: Need to produce a transitional binary package for LRM

Thanks, that clears things up.

summary: - Need to produce a transitional binary package for LRM
+ Need an update-manager hook for bcmwl
Changed in bcmwl (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
description: updated
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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

I added code to update-manager that checks the lsmod output on jaunty->karmic upgrades and if wl is in there it will install bcmwl-kernel-source

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Michael Vogt (mvo)
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.122

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update-manager (1:0.122) karmic; urgency=low

  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeQuirks.py:
    - add handler to check for wl module and transition
      to bcmwl-kernel-source (LP: #381684)
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeViewNonInteractive.py:
    - add bool option "NonInteractive/DpkgProgressLog" to write
      a timing log of the upgrade (for the foundations-karmic-pre-unpacking
      spec)
    - add "NonInteractive/DebugBrokenScripts" option that will re-run
      failed maintainer scripts with debug options
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgrade.cfg:
    - add defaults for the NonInteractive section that match the
      interactive upgrades (for better landscape support)
    - enable apport again
  * AutoUpgradeTester/chart_dpkg_progress.py:
    - add simple tool that can read the dpkg progress information

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:54:35 +0200

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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