Package: firmware-b43-installer
Version: 1:019-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi,
I've written a patch to install the newest firmware which has been
supported by b43-fwcutter since version 1:018 (released in 2013) and
attached the patch to this email. b43-fwcutter 1:019-2 in jessie already
supported installing this firmware offline.
Upstream referred me to Debian [1] for this and confirmed that 784.2 is
the latest version of firmware available [2].
The patch I attached also corrects the description of the firmware
version. The description string listed the old postinst referred to the wl
driver version.
I changed the depends for those upgrading as b43-fwcutter before 018 will
not support this newer firmware. Though Debian may not need this,
downstream distributions might.
Two other issues I may later file/append to bugs on:
1) The listed Debian Package Source Repository (Browseable)[3] only shows
1:018 whereas 1:019 is in the package tracking system.
2) Upstream now lists more supported devices [4] than what the postinst has.
Thanks,
Drew Daniels
Blog: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/blog/
[1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/b43-dev/2016-January/003866.html
[2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/b43-dev/2016-January/003867.html
[3] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/b43-fwcutter.git
[4] http://linuxwireless.sipsolutions.net/en/users/Drivers/b43/diff -uprwd old/debian/control new/debian/control
--- old/debian/control 2016-01-06 23:06:51.361668328 -0600
+++ new/debian/control 2016-01-06 23:07:21.241816495 -0600
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Description: utility for extracting Broa
Package: firmware-b43-installer
Section: contrib/kernel
Architecture: all
-Depends: b43-fwcutter (>= ${source:Version}), bzip2, wget, ${misc:Depends}
+Depends: b43-fwcutter (>= 1:018-1), bzip2, wget, ${misc:Depends}
Replaces: firmware-b43-lpphy-installer (<= 1:015-14)
Breaks: firmware-b43-lpphy-installer (<= 1:015-14)
Description: firmware installer for the b43 driver
diff -uprwd old/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst new/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst
--- old/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst 2016-01-06 22:34:38.164082118 -0600
+++ new/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst 2016-01-06 22:45:04.367187292 -0600
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ if [ -n "$APT_PROXIES" ]; then
eval export $APT_PROXIES
fi
-wget --timeout=60 http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
+wget --timeout=60 http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.tar.bz2
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Some problem occurred during the firmware download. Please check your internet connection."
exit 0
@@ -32,9 +32,8 @@ if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
rm -rf /lib/firmware/b43
fi
fi
-tar xvjf broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
-cd broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux
-b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta.o
+tar xvjf broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.tar.bz2
+b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.wl_apsta.o
rm -rf $tmp
}
@@ -125,7 +124,7 @@ elif [ "$nottested" ]; then
echo "This card is actually not tested. Please install the driver manually."
exit 0
elif [ "$latest" ]; then
- echo "This card work with newer 5.100.138 firmware. Trying to install it."
+ echo "This card work with newer 666.2 or 784.2 firmware. Trying to install it."
latest_firmware
exit 0
fi
