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Package: firmware-b43-installer
Version: 1:019-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Hi,
I've written a patch to install the newest firmware which has been
supported by b43-fwcutter since version 1:018 (released in 2013) and
attached the patch to this email. b43-fwcutter 1:019-2 in jessie already
supported installing this firmware offline.
Upstream referred me to Debian [1] for this and confirmed that 784.2 is
the latest version of firmware available [2].
The patch I attached also corrects the description of the firmware
version. The description string listed the old postinst referred to the wl
driver version.
I changed the depends for those upgrading as b43-fwcutter before 018 will
not support this newer firmware. Though Debian may not need this,
downstream distributions might.
Two other issues I may later file/append to bugs on:
1) The listed Debian Package Source Repository (Browseable)[3] only shows
1:018 whereas 1:019 is in the package tracking system.
2) Upstream now lists more supported devices [4] than what the postinst has.
Thanks,
Drew Daniels
Blog: http://www.boxheap.net/ddaniels/blog/
[1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/b43-dev/2016-January/003866.html
[2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/b43-dev/2016-January/003867.html
[3] http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/b43-fwcutter.git
[4] http://linuxwireless.sipsolutions.net/en/users/Drivers/b43/diff -uprwd old/debian/control new/debian/control
--- old/debian/control 2016-01-06 23:06:51.361668328 -0600
+++ new/debian/control 2016-01-06 23:07:21.241816495 -0600
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Description: utility for extracting Broa
Package: firmware-b43-installer
Section: contrib/kernel
Architecture: all
-Depends: b43-fwcutter (>= ${source:Version}), bzip2, wget, ${misc:Depends}
+Depends: b43-fwcutter (>= 1:018-1), bzip2, wget, ${misc:Depends}
Replaces: firmware-b43-lpphy-installer (<= 1:015-14)
Breaks: firmware-b43-lpphy-installer (<= 1:015-14)
Description: firmware installer for the b43 driver
diff -uprwd old/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst new/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst
--- old/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst 2016-01-06 22:34:38.164082118 -0600
+++ new/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst 2016-01-06 22:45:04.367187292 -0600
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ if [ -n "$APT_PROXIES" ]; then
eval export $APT_PROXIES
fi
-wget --timeout=60 http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
+wget --timeout=60 http://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.tar.bz2
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
echo "Some problem occurred during the firmware download. Please check your internet connection."
exit 0
@@ -32,9 +32,8 @@ if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
rm -rf /lib/firmware/b43
fi
fi
-tar xvjf broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2
-cd broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux
-b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta.o
+tar xvjf broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.tar.bz2
+b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.wl_apsta.o
rm -rf $tmp
}
@@ -125,7 +124,7 @@ elif [ "$nottested" ]; then
echo "This card is actually not tested. Please install the driver manually."
exit 0
elif [ "$latest" ]; then
- echo "This card work with newer 5.100.138 firmware. Trying to install it."
+ echo "This card work with newer 666.2 or 784.2 firmware. Trying to install it."
latest_firmware
exit 0
fi
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Source: b43-fwcutter
Source-Version: 1:019-5
Done: =?utf-8?q?Rapha=C3=ABl_Hertzog?= <raphael@offensive-security.com>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
b43-fwcutter, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to 810161@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Raphaël Hertzog <raphael@offensive-security.com> (supplier of updated b43-fwcutter package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
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Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2020 11:42:37 +0200
Source: b43-fwcutter
Architecture: source
Version: 1:019-5
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: high
Maintainer: Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
Changed-By: Raphaël Hertzog <raphael@offensive-security.com>
Closes: 760813 810161
Changes:
b43-fwcutter (1:019-5) unstable; urgency=high
.
* QA upload.
* Add ca-certificates to Depends so that we can download over https
* Install newer firmware 6.30.163.46 in firmware-b43-installer.
Thanks to Elliott Mitchell <ehem+debian@drgnwing.com>
(Closes: #810161, #760813)
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