12.10 upgrade woes

[8grod]

Hey crew.

I had an upgrade issue today while going from 12.04 to 12.10. Well, two issues but I think they are related.

Upgrade went smoothly, but upon boot, GRUB now only lists 11.10 with a 3.0 kernel.
uname -r says it's a 3.0.0.12 kernel. Running cat /etc/issue says it's "12.10 \n \l"

Almost everything is ok, but the broadcom-based wireless card no longer works. At all. I tried enabling it via the restricted drivers. Jockey returned an error, asking me to look at the log. I will post that at the end.

I uninstalled and reinstalled the broadcom package a few times, no luck. I really can't get it to go. The machine is an Inspirion 1545 with a 1397 broadcom chip.

Now, an intensive google search shows this problem a lot with people upgrading to 11.10. Hence my conclusion that these issues are linked. I tried manually upgrading the kernel to 3.4. No luck. Then 3.5. Nope. Apt says it was successful. uname still reports 3.0.0.12.

Any ideas? I'd prefer not to reinstall, but I understand sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
Thanks a TON for your help!

[8grod]

Jockey.log output:


2012-10-27 16:04:28,020 DEBUG: querying driver db <jockey.detection.OpenPrintingDriverDB instance at 0xb744bc6c> about HardwareID('modalias', 'pci:v00008086d00002935sv00001028sd000002AAbc0Csc0 3i00')
2012-10-27 16:04:28,020 DEBUG: querying driver db <jockey.detection.OpenPrintingDriverDB instance at 0xb744bc6c> about HardwareID('modalias', 'wmi:77BD0728-2E34-478C-B625-67F02A7E4897')
2012-10-27 16:04:28,020 DEBUG: querying driver db <jockey.detection.OpenPrintingDriverDB instance at 0xb744bc6c> about HardwareID('modalias', 'pci:v00008086d00002934sv00001028sd000002AAbc0Csc0 3i00')
2012-10-27 16:04:28,021 DEBUG: querying driver db <jockey.detection.OpenPrintingDriverDB instance at 0xb744bc6c> about HardwareID('modalias', 'pci:v00008086d0000293Esv00001028sd000002AAbc04sc0 3i00')
2012-10-27 16:04:28,021 DEBUG: querying driver db <jockey.detection.OpenPrintingDriverDB instance at 0xb744bc6c> about HardwareID('modalias', 'platform:Fixed MDIO bus')
2012-10-27 16:04:28,021 DEBUG: querying driver db <jockey.detection.OpenPrintingDriverDB instance at 0xb744bc6c> about HardwareID('modalias', 'input:b0011v0001p0001eAB41-e0,1,4,11,14,k71,72,73,74,75,76,77,79,7A,7B,7C,7D, 7E,7F,80,8C,8D,8E,8F,94,98,9B,9C,9D,9E,9F,A2,A3,A4 ,A5,A6,AC,AD,B7,B8,B9,BF,C1,CD,D4,D7,D9,E0,E1,E2,E 3,EC,F0,ram4,l0,1,2,sfw')
2012-10-27 16:04:28,021 DEBUG: querying driver db <jockey.detection.OpenPrintingDriverDB instance at 0xb744bc6c> about HardwareID('modalias', 'wmi:8D9DDCBC-A997-11DA-B012-B622A1EF5492')
2012-10-27 16:04:28,021 DEBUG: querying driver db <jockey.detection.OpenPrintingDriverDB instance at 0xb744bc6c> about HardwareID('modalias', 'usb:v05CAp180Ad8730dcEFdsc02dp01ic0Eisc02ip00')
2012-10-27 16:04:28,021 DEBUG: querying driver db <jockey.detection.OpenPrintingDriverDB instance at 0xb744bc6c> about HardwareID('modalias', 'wmi:A80593CE-A997-11DA-B012-B622A1EF5492')
2012-10-27 16:04:28,021 DEBUG: querying driver db <jockey.detection.OpenPrintingDriverDB instance at 0xb744bc6c> about HardwareID('modalias', 'platform:eisa')
2012-10-27 16:04:28,022 DEBUG: querying driver db <jockey.detection.OpenPrintingDriverDB instance at 0xb744bc6c> about HardwareID('modalias', 'pci:v00008086d00002930sv00001028sd000002AAbc0Csc0 5i00')
2012-10-27 16:04:28,022 DEBUG: querying driver db <jockey.detection.OpenPrintingDriverDB instance at 0xb744bc6c> about HardwareID('modalias', 'serio:ty01pr00id00ex00')
2012-10-27 16:04:28,022 DEBUG: querying driver db <jockey.detection.OpenPrintingDriverDB instance at 0xb744bc6c> about HardwareID('modalias', 'input:b0000v0000p0000e0000-e0,5,kramlsfw2,')
2012-10-27 16:04:28,022 DEBUG: querying driver db <jockey.detection.OpenPrintingDriverDB instance at 0xb744bc6c> about HardwareID('modalias', 'pci:v000011ABd00004354sv00001028sd000002AAbc02sc0 0i00')
2012-10-27 16:04:28,022 DEBUG: querying driver db <jockey.detection.OpenPrintingDriverDB instance at 0xb744bc6c> about HardwareID('modalias', 'input:b0011v0002p0008e0000-e0,1,2,k110,111,112,r0,1,amlsfw')
2012-10-27 16:04:28,022 DEBUG: querying driver db <jockey.detection.OpenPrintingDriverDB instance at 0xb744bc6c> about HardwareID('modalias', 'input:b0000v0000p0000e0000-e0,5,kramlsfw4,')
2012-10-27 16:04:28,022 DEBUG: querying driver db <jockey.detection.OpenPrintingDriverDB instance at 0xb744bc6c> about HardwareID('modalias', 'acpi:PNP0F13:')
2012-10-27 16:04:28,106 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled, bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: blacklisted, b43legacy: blacklisted
2012-10-27 16:04:28,146 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled, bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: blacklisted, b43legacy: blacklisted
2012-10-27 16:04:28,162 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled, bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: blacklisted, b43legacy: blacklisted
2012-10-27 16:04:51,815 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled, bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: blacklisted, b43legacy: blacklisted
2012-10-27 16:04:53,888 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled, bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: blacklisted, b43legacy: blacklisted
2012-10-27 16:04:58,174 WARNING: modinfo for module wl failed: ERROR: modinfo: could not find module wl

2012-10-27 16:04:58,175 WARNING: /sys/module/wl/drivers does not exist, cannot rebind wl driver
2012-10-27 16:04:58,263 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled, bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: blacklisted, b43legacy: blacklisted
2012-10-27 16:05:00,527 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled, bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: blacklisted, b43legacy: blacklisted
2012-10-27 16:05:00,557 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled, bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: blacklisted, b43legacy: blacklisted
2012-10-27 16:05:00,571 DEBUG: BroadcomWLHandler enabled(): kmod disabled, bcm43xx: blacklisted, b43: blacklisted, b43legacy: blacklisted

[8grod]

I discovered that USB drives aren't working either. Again, a common issue that was in 11.10

I downloaded the 12.10 iso on my other computer, "burned" it to a USB drive. So, when running it live, the wifi works again.
I'll reinstall tomorrow and report back.

I'm still trying to figure out what happened though...

[8grod]

Complete reinstall fixed the problem.

No idea what caused the issue to begin though. If I ever figure it out, I'll post it here.