To, The Team User, debian-user@lists.debian.org, Debian.org My dear illustrious Team Leaders,
Good morning. May please my first post at https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/10/msg00493.html with the subject, "Appears to be a problem with Debian Stretch 9.11.0 regarding WAN non-allocation ..." be perused. Following the short post by Mr. Curt at: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/10/msg00497.html, a solution was found and the Complete Solution was posted at: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=143930 In Brief: I used Debian wiki page of wl. Added the sources.list line: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye contrib non-free Updated. Uninstalled broadcom installed package. Installed broadcom-sta-dkms package.from synaptic. After the rest steps the Wi-Fi worked, and works, perfectly. For example: (1) # dmesg | grep -e "wl" [output] [ 0.000000] DMI: Hewlett-Packard HP Notebook/80C4, BIOS F.02 03/24/2015 [ 15.567967] wl: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel. [ 15.567973] wl: module license 'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel. [ 15.571378] wl: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel [ 15.607781] wlan0: Broadcom BCM4365 802.11 Hybrid Wireless Controller 6.30.223.271 (r587334) [ 15.751248] wl 0000:04:00.0 wlp4s0: renamed from wlan0 [ 44.867147] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlp4s0: link becomes ready [ 436.593766] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlp4s0: link becomes ready [ 7107.206153] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlp4s0: link becomes ready [10536.901498] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlp4s0: link becomes ready [10791.043627] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlp4s0: link becomes ready [17994.815848] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlp4s0: link becomes ready [/output] (2) # dmesg | grep -e "bluetooth" [output] [ 17.284222] bluetooth hci0: firmware: failed to load brcm/BCM43142A0-0a5c-216d.hcd (-2) [ 17.284331] bluetooth hci0: firmware: failed to load brcm/BCM-0a5c-216d.hcd (-2) [ 6815.629661] bluetooth hci0: firmware: failed to load brcm/BCM43142A0-0a5c-216d.hcd (-2) [ 6815.629675] bluetooth hci0: firmware: failed to load brcm/BCM-0a5c-216d.hcd (-2) [/output] # dmesg | grep -e "broadcom" has not output. With my inability to pair my bluetooth headphone following instructions at https://wiki.debian.org/BluetoothUser, /usr/share/doc/bluez/README.Debian.gz and installing the necessary packages, like bluetooth, bluez and blueman my doubt again arises. So my Necessary Question: Has the broadcom and wl created a conflicting situation? Best wishes, Rajib Etc.
