Disabling proprietary driver fails with no message
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| software-properties (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I freshly installed Ubuntu 13.04 a week ago, used for a couple days with no problems and then found out I can enable proprietary driver for my wireless adapter. I enabled it but it didn't function properly (it didn't connect to some routers).
When I found out about this problem, I tried to disable it (and switch back to default driver) when being disconnected. I selected not to use any proprietary driver for my wireless adapter in the Software & Updates > Additional Drivers and clicked Apply Changes. Application disabled for a couple seconds showing something is going on and suddenly settings went back to "Using Broadcom..." and the story repeated every time. No error messages, no nothing. Tried rebooting computer - nothing changed.
After a couple attempts I connected my laptop to the Internet using Ethernet cable and did the same. This time progress lasted longer and driver was disable. BUT even then I had to reboot my computer in order to make the change work even though I didn't see any message about that.
I believe it's sort of a bug that there are no error nor informational messages shown during the process. I see no way how a user may know that software needs Internet to function properly or that, even though it shows driver is disabled, it still needs to be rebooted.
Ubuntu 13.04
Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller
| Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote | #1 |
| tags: | added: bot-comment |
| Pius (pijus-navickas) wrote | #2 |
| affects: | ubuntu → software-properties (Ubuntu) |
| tags: | added: raring |
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