Bug#866882: stable: 20161130-3 breaks raspberry pi3
Package: firmware-brcm80211
Version: 0.43+rpi5
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
After upgrading my RPi3 from 'jessie' to the actual stable, the wlan
module could not initialize anymore.
Well first I filed a bug agains the BRCM driver in kernel 4.9.35-v7+ as
I belived this was a problem of said driver with the actual firmware.
As this problem massively bothered me, I went on an installed a fresh
'actual' Raspbian on a separate SD card and bootet. WLAN works fine, so
not a hardware issue.
But I noted that Raspbian uses 'jessie' as release tag and changed this
to stable, as I want to stay with stable.
Did a dist-upgrade.
And again, the WLAN device was gone.
I investigated further into the problem and noticed, the MD5 sums of
the files in /lib/firmware/brcm had changed.
I did a downgrade to firmware-brcm80211=0.43+rpi5 and the WLAN device
is back.
My search on google, revealed that a lot of other RPi 3 users run into
that problem and apparently I am the first to figure out the cause.
So I suggest that the firmware-brcm80211=20161130-3 in the raspbian
repository should be checked and made sure the correct firmware version
for the 'stable' kernel ins included.
-Benoit-
-- System Information:
Distributor ID: Raspbian
Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 9.0 (stretch)
Release: 9.0
Codename: stretch
Architecture: armv7l
Kernel: Linux 4.9.35-v7+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_CH.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=de_CH.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
firmware-brcm80211 depends on no packages.
firmware-brcm80211 recommends no packages.
Versions of packages firmware-brcm80211 suggests:
ii initramfs-tools 0.130
-- no debconf information
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