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Bug#693756: installation on newer machine



On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:02:02PM +0200, chrysn wrote:
> * wifi is not recognized any more at all, neither in the installer nor
>   at runtime. will need further investigation, but it seems that a
>   different chip is used (BCM43142 instead of BCM4313).

it is indeed a different chip.

the free driver for the broadcom chips claims not to support it at
all[1], the nonfree one does, but not in the version inside debian.
instead, bcmwl-kernel-source (6.20.155.1+bdcom-0ubuntu6) is required
(can be installed from [2] and just works with dkms).

ubuntu has a package for it[2]; i don't quite see how this is connected
to debian's broadcom-sta package, but it seems to me that they keep
their own separate package, and ours only got pulled in there too[3].
a debian bug already requests pulling from there (bug #688823).

[1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
[2] http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/bcmwl-kernel-source
[3] http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/broadcom-sta-source

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