Bug#712174: Not support in upstream
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 08:18:48PM +0200, Philipp Marek wrote:
> > I guess I found the reason: this device is not support by the
> > default kernel, but needs the broadcom-sta module built.
> >
> > Trying with m-a a-i now, but I guess this bug can be closed.
>
> Right, the device listing in your report shows you had the 'wl' driver
> loaded on 3.2. Although this doesn't seem to be a regression, it is a
> bug (of a sort) that the free b43 driver doesn't support this WLAN
> controller.
On second thought, the bug might be that installing/booting a new kernel doesn't immediately causes m-a to run.
The problem is that _after_ booting the new kernel there might be no network connection (eg., if the wifi driver is dkms), and then there's no easy way to get the linux-kbuild, -headers, and/or (newer) source packages.
Perhaps m-a should have an install trigger for _every_ kernel package, and at least ask whether to get current packages?
(As a side note, I had to get the experimental broadcom-sta-modules-3.9-1-amd64:all 5.100.82.112-11+3.9.6-1 because of #711227.)
Well, thanks all the same, I hope to get that working on the next reboot ;)
Regards,
Phil
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