On 2023-02-09 at 21:39, Gary Dale wrote: > I'm trying to use a Linksys AE1200 wifi usb dongle as a second network > connection for my Bookworm workstation. The device shows up in lsusb but > not in ip link. > > According to what I've found, it needs the brcmfmac driver module, which > seems to be in the 6.1 kernel and loaded: > > $ lsmod | grep brcmfmac > brcmfmac 360448 0 > brcmutil 20480 1 brcmfmac > cfg80211 1122304 1 brcmfmac > mmc_core 208896 1 brcmfmac > usbcore 344064 10 > xhci_hcd,snd_usb_audio,usbhid,snd_usbmidi_lib,usblp,usb_storage,uvcvideo,brcmfmac,xhci_pci,uas > > I'm using KDE/Plasma as my desktop and plasma-nm is loaded. However it > too doesn't seem to think that there is a wifi network. > > Interestingly the device works in Bullseye as I installed Bullseye on > the computer that used to use it. That really only required downloading > the correct firmware package that contained the brcmfmac module. That > package no longer exists in Bookworm. Would that be firmware-brcm80211? That still exists in bookworm; it's just been moved to the new non-free-firmware component, so it won't be showing up if your sources.list doesn't reference that component (in addition to e.g. main, contrib, and/or non-free). There was another thread on this mailing list just within the past day that asked a similar question regarding another firmware package, and the replies to that question include links to the announcements about the new component. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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