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

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

# hardware support
severity 701511 important
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Hi,

tomdean wrote:

> 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.

Thanks for testing (and thanks to Holger for passing on the report).
Am I correct in guessing that the 3.2.y kernel from wheezy or
squeeze-backports works fine?

We might be able to backport the missing support to the 2.6.32.y
kernel in a future squeeze point release if it's simple.  Pursuing
that would require a little information about your wifi card (its PCI
id) and some help testing it.  Output from

  reportbug --template linux-image-$(uname -r)

should be enough to get started.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan