Bug#776478: firmware-linux-nonfree: tigon driver for a Broadcom ethernet card prevents the computer from suspending to RAM

[ryan <only1ryan@postpro.net>]

Package: firmware-linux-nonfree
Version: 0.36+wheezy.1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

For an encrypted hard drive, the package firmware-linux-nonfree seems to
prevent the computer from suspending to RAM.  In particular, it is the tigon
driver for a Broadcom ethernet card.

With the tigon driver installed the computer will not suspend to RAM at all.
With it removed it will suspend to RAM a single time, but it will not suspend
to disk at all.

I have removed the linux-firmware-nonfree package and do not know, if the tigon
driver is installed, if the computer will suspend to disk.  It is possible
these matters are related to the firmware-iwlwifi package, which is installed
to support the Intel wireless network card.

By encrypted I mean the default choice in the debian installer: dm-crypt plus
LUKS plus LVM.  Also, the desktop environment is KDE.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.8
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

firmware-linux-nonfree depends on no packages.

firmware-linux-nonfree recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firmware-linux-nonfree suggests:
ii  initramfs-tools                          0.109.1
ii  linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64 [linux-image]  3.2.65-1+deb7u1