Package: firmware-b43legacy-installer
Version: 4.178.10.4-4
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Unfortunately the installer is postinst script is written to expect only one
card from Broadcom in the lspci listing.
I've rewritten the test to be tolerant to multiple matching lines. Please see
the included patch.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages firmware-b43legacy-installer depends on:
ii b43-fwcutter 1:013-2 Utility for extracting Broadcom 43
ii wget 1.12-2.1 retrieves files from the web
Versions of packages firmware-b43legacy-installer recommends:
ii linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 2.6.26-26lenny1 Linux 2.6.26 image on PPro/Celeron
ii linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 2.6.32-35 Linux 2.6.32 for modern PCs
firmware-b43legacy-installer suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
--- /var/lib/dpkg/info/firmware-b43legacy-installer.postinst~ 2010-05-11
01:56:24.000000000 +0200
+++ /var/lib/dpkg/info/firmware-b43legacy-installer.postinst 2011-08-20
19:28:22.555874851 +0200
@@ -5,9 +5,9 @@
# check chip
pci=`lspci -n | grep -o "14e4:[1234567890]\+"` || true
if [ -n "$pci" ]; then
- if [ "`echo $pci | cut -d: -f2`" != "4301" ] && \
- [ "`echo $pci | cut -d: -f2`" != "4306" ] && \
- [ "`echo $pci | cut -d: -f2`" != "4320" ]; then
+ if ! echo "$pci" | grep "4301" && \
+ ! echo "$pci" | grep "4306" && \
+ ! echo "$pci" | grep "4320"; then
echo "Not supported card here (PCI id $pci)!"
echo "Use b43 firmware. This is just for the b43legacy driver."
echo "Aborting."
