Bug#850380: closed by Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#850380: firmware-brcm80211 breaks wlan0 on Raspbian)

[Frank Breitling]

Then you need to report this to Raspbian, not to Debian.


I thought so as well. However, I reported it to Debian because the Raspbian 
packet states:

Maintainer: Debian Kernel Team 

Is this another bug or should I find the actual maintainer info somewhere else?


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#850380: firmware-brcm80211 breaks wlan0 on Raspbian

It has been closed by Ben Hutchings .

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Bug#850380: firmware-brcm80211 breaks wlan0 on Raspbian

[Frank Breitling]

Package: firmware-brcm80211
Version: 20161130-2 (testing)

After upgrading Raspbian from jessie to testing wlan0 disappears on a 
Raspberry Pi 3 with a similar error message reported in e.g. Debian Bug 
#821400 or at 
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28=138629=25:
brcmfmac_sdio mmc1:0001:1: Direct firmware load for 
brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.bin failed with error -2


After downgrading to version: 043+rpi5 (stable) wlan0 appears and works 
again.


043+rpi5 (stable) provides the same version of brcmfmac43430-sdio.bin 
found at 
https://github.com/RPi-Distro/firmware-nonfree/tree/master/brcm80211/brcm/. 
20161130-2 (testing) provides something else that doesn't work on a 
Raspberry Pi 3.


I wonder if this package could be changed to have wireless working on a 
Raspberry Pi.


I am using Raspbian GNU/Linux stretch/sid with kernel 4.4.38-v7+ #938 
SMP Thu Dec 15 15:22:21 GMT 2016 armv7l.