[RESOLVED] Recent firmware updates - Broadcom
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[RESOLVED] Recent firmware updates - Broadcom
My wireless card is a broadcom 43225 which requires firmware-brcm80211. Over the weekend there were 3 seperate firmware updates. I don't reboot over the weekends, so I had not felt the negative effects until this evening. No matter what, I could not load the brcm driver. Couldn't find any reports out there either.
The version that gave me issus is 43.3. My solution was to blow it out, and install a previous version. I installed the wheezy version (36.1).
So wireless is back up and running for me. Anyone else?
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The version that gave me issus is 43.3. My solution was to blow it out, and install a previous version. I installed the wheezy version (36.1).
So wireless is back up and running for me. Anyone else?
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Re: Recent firmware updates - Broadcom
I dist-upgraded last night on Haggis. I have bcm4312 and the firmware got upgraded. No issues so far.
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Re: Recent firmware updates - Broadcom
Seems the Debian BTS is not telling anything.
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I install the 4.0 kernel, just to check if possibly that would help, and still the same. Odd. Oh well, I have the wheezy version saved just in case. That seems to work just fine.
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Re: Recent firmware updates - Broadcom
drew, what's the exact device number (lspci -nnk shows it in square brackets) please?
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4:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4357] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Foxconn International, Inc. T77H103.00 Wireless Half-size Mini PCIe Card [105b:e021]
Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge
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firmware-brcm80211:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 0.43.3
Version table:
0.43.3 0
500 http://packages.siduction.org/fixes/ unstable/non-free i386 Packages
0.43 0
500 http://ftp.cn.debian.org/debian/ unstable/non-free i386 Packages
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sudo apt-get install firmware-brcm80211=0.43
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Re: Recent firmware updates - Broadcom
Yes! That version works fine too. Just tested.
I had not picked the wheezy version purposely. It just came up in my search. I had tried as quick experiment. Since it worked, and I had the .deb file, I let it be.
I had not picked the wheezy version purposely. It just came up in my search. I had tried as quick experiment. Since it worked, and I had the .deb file, I let it be.
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Re: Recent firmware updates - Broadcom
Okay, then I'll put this version in future releases, and not siduction's (fixed one, which might work with a siduction kernel but not with vanilla Debian) :) Thanks for the feedback.
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Re: [RESOLVED] Recent firmware updates - Broadcom
Marked as resolved.
.44 came out a bit ago, although I continued to hold until I was motivated to go down that path. Although I'm on Victory now, it is the same machine and wireless card.
I upgraded just now and rebooted. It works just fine. For what is worth I'm on
.44 came out a bit ago, although I continued to hold until I was motivated to go down that path. Although I'm on Victory now, it is the same machine and wireless card.
I upgraded just now and rebooted. It works just fine. For what is worth I'm on
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Re: [RESOLVED] Recent firmware updates - Broadcom
^ Still no dice with the Debian kernel on my machine. But we have Anti.