** No longer affects: software-properties (Ubuntu)
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"Modaliases" field missing from debian control file
Status in
[Expired for b43-fwcutter (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity
for 60 days.]
** Changed in: b43-fwcutter (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Expired
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Unsubscribing sponsors for now. Let's please not change this until we
have some clarity about the broadcom drivers.
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Subscribing kernel team. Is this driver really something which we should
offer to users via graphical means (and thus make it very easy)? It
seems we've had three drivers (b43 with fwcutter, bcmwl, and now the
relatively new bcma one). Which of these do we actually still support?
We can't expect
I can provide a patch for what I was saying in comment #16, but I think
it is just a one liner in the two postrm files. I think it would be
sensible for software-properties-gtk that the firmware is only deleted
when the package is purged. This, modaliases in comment #2 and a reboot
patch would
Thanks Mathieu for your interest in this.
If you use a patch similar to that in comment #2 then yes you could
argue that is good enough to fix this (but it is much better to tell the
user a reboot is needed too). However, it is not optimal. If you use
modalises as in comment #13 then I think
FYI, the reboot patch in comment #5 needs a slight adjustment because
the commands are being run from a deleted directory/folder. I fixed
this in the combined patch in comment #13.
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Adam,
Generally this looks pretty good; but let's focus on just the modaliases
issues for this bug. Can you file separate bug reports for the other
problems?
As for software-properties, I suspect there are probably no issues
there; everything can be fixed by modifying just b43-fwcutter (by the
Attached is a patch to make firmware-b43legacy-installer a dummy
package. The patch also includes and improves all the other patches
I've listed.
The only problem I've found is due to the debconf value b43-fwcutter
/install-unconditional and if this is true it now installs both lots of
firmware.
The modalias file was generated from the aliases of the ssb and bcma
modules. I suppose I should of taken out the pci ids listed as not
being supported ( https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
). Oh well, for another day maybe, but I think all this effort is going
to go to waste
Reboot patch for bcmwl -
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/1491070
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Title:
"Modaliases" field missing
While we're at it, lets delete the directory properly.
** Patch added: "remove.patch"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/b43-fwcutter/+bug/1490212/+attachment/4455802/+files/remove.patch
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A few more observations about my basic modaliases patch. the aliases
beginning ssb/bcma are inferior. In software-properties-gtk the vendor
and model are listed as unknown. Aliases beginning with pci can be
generated from the ssb/bcma module aliases, but like I said above, I
don't know how
Mintdrivers (based on software-properties-gk) has a few interesting
commits:
There is one about firmware -
https://github.com/linuxmint/mintdrivers/commit/c443ecd54310d7e521d57b214bcbfb7979fe4c66
One requesting an internet connection -
Adding software-properties to the party since much of this involves
them.
** Also affects: software-properties
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Project changed: software-properties => software-properties (Ubuntu)
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FYI for anyone requiring background information on all this, the support
of cards and a list of PCI ID's is here
https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
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The attached tells software-properties-gtk and the user that a reboot is
needed after any changes to firmware.
** Patch added: "reboot.patch"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/b43-fwcutter/+bug/1490212/+attachment/4455797/+files/reboot.patch
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Back onto software-properties-gtk, the "this device is not working" is
very unreliable. I'm not sure how it works this out, but it doesn't
seem to account for the firmware being manually installed or through
e.g. the linux-firmware-nonfree package which also contains b43
firmware.
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Bug about the wl modaliases field:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/1490713
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Title:
"Modaliases" field
The attachment "Basic modaliases patch" seems to be a patch. If it
isn't, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the
"patch" tag, and if you are a member of the ~ubuntu-reviewers,
unsubscribe the team.
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So I've looked into this some more and the theory is sound. There are,
however, a few stumbling blocks.
The first is software-properties-gtk is a bit rubbish because it doesn't
provide much feedback about the package installation process. So if the
firmware download fails then the
The attached is a simple patch. The modaliases files could be generated
automatically by the debian rules file. It would work better if there
weren't seperate b43/b43legacy packages and we could use the same alias
as wl does.
** Patch added: Basic modaliases patch
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