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? regards, -Mathi ________________________________ From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 6, 2023 9:43 PM To: Mathirajan S. Manoharan <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]> Cc: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Bug#1030741: firmware-brcm80211: Package firmware-brcm80211 not found in bookworm Hi, On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 08:05:29PM -0800, Mathirajan S. Manoharan wrote: > Package: firmware-brcm80211 > Severity: important > X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected] > > 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
