Your message dated Sat, 13 Mar 2021 17:08:19 +0100
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and subject line Re: firmware-brcm80211: brcmfmac43455 on RPi4 causes hostapd
to fail silently
has caused the Debian Bug report #977702,
regarding firmware-brcm80211: brcmfmac43455 on RPi4 causes hostapd to fail
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Package: firmware-brcm80211
Version: 20200918-1~bop10+1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Steps to reproduce:
1. flash latest tested Raspberry Pi 4 image and boot
2. update all packages
3. install hostapd
4. configure the onboard wlan device as an 802.11n AP
Expected results:
AP works
Actual results:
hostapd claims the AP is enabled, but it's actually not
Work-around:
1. apt purge firmware-brcm80211
2. cp /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455.* from a current stable Raspbian
install
- this appears to work even despite the fact that
Raspbian is 32-bit
- the driver still throws a warning about a missing
brcmfmac43455-sdio.raspberrypi,4-model-b.txt file, but
this file is not included with stable Raspbian, and its absence
doesn't appear to cause any problems beyond the warning
The brcmfmac43455 firmware in firmware-brcm80211 appears to be much
older than what Raspbian stable is currently shipping
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.7
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates')
Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)
Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-0.bpo.2-arm64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CRAP
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
firmware-brcm80211 depends on no packages.
firmware-brcm80211 recommends no packages.
Versions of packages firmware-brcm80211 suggests:
ii initramfs-tools 0.133+deb10u1
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Version: 20210208-4
Thanks
latest upstream version in unstable is known to work with hostapd.
(attention current -3 testing version is known to *not* work on RPi4)
if the original issues are still reproducible with 20210208-4,
please let us know together with relevant hostapd.conf.
thank you.
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maks
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