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



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On Wed, 2015-01-28 at 08:44 -0500, ryan wrote:
> 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

Do you mean the tg3 driver?  Where have you installed it from?

I very much doubt that you have one of the few Broadcom chips for which
the tg3 driver needs to load firmware.  Please send the output of
the command 'lspci -vnn'.

> the computer will not suspend to RAM at all.

How are you invoking suspend to RAM?  In what way does it fail?

> With it removed it will suspend to RAM a single time, but it will not suspend
> to disk at all.

How are you invoking suspend to disk?  In what way does it fail?

> 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.

Then you should test this.

> 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.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else.

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