Bug#1030741: firmware-brcm80211: Package firmware-brcm80211 not found in bookworm

[Mathirajan S. Manoharan]

Package: firmware-brcm80211
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: math...@hotmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

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* What led up to the situation?

I'm using bookworm as my desktop OS. I have the following wireless card.

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM43225 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4357] (rev 01)

This card is not working. It displays a message that "Firmware is missing".

60.592279] brcmsmac bcma0:1: firmware: failed to load brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw (-2)
[ 60.593680] firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for information about missing firmware
[ 60.594859] brcmsmac bcma0:1: firmware: failed to load brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw (-2)


i already have firmware-linux-free, firmware-iwlwifi, firmware-misc-nonfree installed on my system. None of these have the file brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw

I also tried installing "firmware-b43-installer". This also didn't install the required files. So, the wifi card is unusable on bookwork.

I found that the package firmware-brcm80211 has these files, but it is not present in bookworm repo

* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
* What was the outcome of this action?
* What outcome did you expect instead?

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_CRAP
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 08:05:29PM -0800, Mathirajan S. Manoharan wrote:
> Package: firmware-brcm80211
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-Cc: math...@hotmail.com
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
>
> * What led up to the situation?
>
> I'm using bookworm as my desktop OS. I have the following wireless card.
>
> 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM43225 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4357] (rev 01)
>
> This card is not working. It displays a message that "Firmware is missing".
>
> 60.592279] brcmsmac bcma0:1: firmware: failed to load brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw (-2)
> [ 60.593680] firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for information about missing firmware
> [ 60.594859] brcmsmac bcma0:1: firmware: failed to load brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw (-2)
>
>
> i already have firmware-linux-free, firmware-iwlwifi, firmware-misc-nonfree installed on my system. None of these have the file brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw
>
> I also tried installing "firmware-b43-installer". This also didn't install the required files. So, the wifi card is unusable on bookwork.
>
> I found that the package firmware-brcm80211 has these files, but it is not present in bookworm repo

It is in bookworm, but it moved to the non-free-firmware archive
component (cf.
https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#non-free-split)

Regards,
Salvatore

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Hi Mathi,

On Tue, Feb 07, 2023 at 06:45:03PM +0000, Mathirajan S. Manoharan wrote:
> Thank you very much. I was able to install this package
> firmware-brcm80211 to get the wifi card working on my pc.
>
> But i'm running into a strange problem now. The system freezes and
> reboots after a few seconds. I have never experienced anything like
> this with Linux past several years.
>
> If i boot into single user mode and uninstall this package
> firmware-brcm80211, the system functions normally.
>
> If i install firmware-brcm80211, this makes the system unstable. The
> system freezes and reboots.
>
> Should i file a new bug for this?

Not good :(

yes can you please fill a new bug for this issue, please make sure to
attach as well kernel dmesg from the system, ideally if we catch the
error.

Regards,
Salvatore