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Re: Bug#701511: base: At boot, the wrong b43 driver is loaded. I installed compat-drivers-3.7.6-1



reassign 701511 src:linux-2.6

severity 701511 normal

thanks

 

On Sonntag, 24. Februar 2013, tomdean wrote:

> Package: base

> Severity: important

>

> The b43 driver installed at boot does not work. I have included a

> work around.

> I installed the b43 driver from compat-drivers-3.7.6-1 and it works.

> After boot, I can manually unload the b43 driver and reload it

> then ifup wlan0 works. Doing this in rc.local does not work

> unless I add sleep's

>

> > locate b43.ko

>

> /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko

> /lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/updates/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko

>

> > cat /etc/rc.local

>

> /sbin/modprobe -v -r b43

> /sbin/modprobe -v b43

> /sbin/ifup wlan0

>

> Does not work.

>

> > cat /etc/rc.local

>

> sleep 2

> /sbin/modprobe -v -r b43

> sleep 2

> /sbin/modprobe -v b43

> sleep 2

> /sbin/ifup wlan0

>

> does work.

>

>

> -- System Information:

> Debian Release: 6.0.6

> APT prefers stable-updates

> APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')

> Architecture: i386 (i686)

>

> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)

> Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)

> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

 

 

 

 


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