[wellylug] WiFi problem

[jumbophut]

On 25 April 2014 5:32:36 PM NZST, Jeff Hunt <jeffhunt90 at gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
>This is a friend of mine who has retired and so installed Ubuntu on
>his own machine successfully and now is doing his wife's laptop.
>He has been trying for over a week. I am out of my depth with wifi.
>Can anyone help? As far as I can see the wifi is completely invisible.
[...]
>$ dmesg | grep wl
>[   12.955967] wl: module license 'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel.
>[   12.959685] wl: module verification failed: signature and/or
>required
>key missing - tainting kernel

That last bit looks like it could be an issue.

What version of Ubuntu is your friend using?

There was an unsigned module bug
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1253155), but it
was only fixed (and only recently) in 12.04LTS, 13.10 and 14.04.
Trying the latest version of one of those may help.

Compiling a new kernel could be another option.

-- 
Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, /l at omcgtjuba.phi/')