Bug#1030741: firmware-brcm80211: Package firmware-brcm80211 not found in bookworm
Hi,
On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 08:05:29PM -0800, Mathirajan S. Manoharan wrote:
> Package: firmware-brcm80211
> Severity: important
> X-Debbugs-Cc: mathiraj@hotmail.com
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***
>
> * What led up to the situation?
>
> I'm using bookworm as my desktop OS. I have the following wireless card.
>
> 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM43225 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4357] (rev 01)
>
> This card is not working. It displays a message that "Firmware is missing".
>
> 60.592279] brcmsmac bcma0:1: firmware: failed to load brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw (-2)
> [ 60.593680] firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for information about missing firmware
> [ 60.594859] brcmsmac bcma0:1: firmware: failed to load brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw (-2)
>
>
> i already have firmware-linux-free, firmware-iwlwifi, firmware-misc-nonfree installed on my system. None of these have the file brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw
>
> I also tried installing "firmware-b43-installer". This also didn't install the required files. So, the wifi card is unusable on bookwork.
>
> I found that the package firmware-brcm80211 has these files, but it is not present in bookworm repo
It is in bookworm, but it moved to the non-free-firmware archive
component (cf.
https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#non-free-split)
Regards,
Salvatore
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