Fixing broadcom-sta-dkms on Ubuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat

Failed upgrading your HWE kernel because of broadcom-sta-dkms?

TL;DR

cd /tmp
wget https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/restricted/b/broadcom-sta/broadcom-sta-dkms_6.30.223.271-29ubuntu1_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./broadcom-sta-dkms_6.30.223.271-29ubuntu1_amd64.deb

Kernel version incompatibility is a common headache for DKMS packages.

• Ubuntu 24.04.4 HWE kernel
  • Linux 6.17 from Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka
  • fixed by broadcom-sta (6.30.223.271-23ubuntu1.2) in noble-proposed
• Ubuntu 24.04.5 HWE kernel
  • Linux 7.0 from Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Raccoon
  • fixed by broadcom-sta (6.30.223.271-29ubuntu1) in resolute
    • includes fixes for Linux 6.17

Linux Mint 22 is based on Ubuntu Noble thus this fix also applies.

References

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• Bug #2120508 “[SRU] Kernel 6.17 support in broadcom-sta” : Bugs : broadcom-sta package : Ubuntu
• broadcom-sta package : Ubuntu
• Git : Code : broadcom-sta package : Ubuntu