Hi Roger,
Since installing the experimental package, I've spent some more time
investigating and it appears the dmesg errors:
1. never occur if networkctl is executed as root
2. always occur if executed as a un-elevated user
3. sporadically occur if executed when elevated with sudo
In all cases, the access point MAC address remains zeroed in the
response.
Otherwise, the experimental package appears to be an improvement in
that the txpower is now reported and the access point MAC is visible
using 'iw wlan0 link'. I assume it won't make it to the bullseye
release, but do you know if the plan is to merge it into bulleye
post-release?
Cheers,
Phil
On Sun, 18 Apr, 2021 at 21:41, Philip Stewart
<philip.stewart.pub...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Roger, unfortunately both errors remain after updating to
broadcom-sta-dkms/experimental,now 6.30.223.271-16~exp1.
However, on a more positive note, 'iwlist wlan0 txpower' does seems
to be report correctly following the update.
Cheers, Phil
On Mon, 19 Apr, 2021 at 05:04, Roger Shimizu <rogershim...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 1:33 AM Philip Stewart
<philip.stewart.pub...@gmail.com> wrote:
Package: broadcom-sta-dkms
Version: 6.30.223.271-15
Severity: minor
Dear Maintainer,
Calls to networkctl, e.g. 'networkctl' or 'networkctl status
wlan0',
result in the following error messages in dmesg:
[ 6969.831960] ERROR @wl_dev_intvar_get :
[ 6969.831968] error (-1)
[ 6969.831979] ERROR @wl_cfg80211_get_tx_power :
[ 6969.831982] error (-1)
I haven't yet observed any significant detrimental effect as a
result
of the errors, merely incomplete status reporting, e.g. missing
access
point MAC address.
Could you kindly try 6.30.223.271-16~exp1 in experimental?
*
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1180272/accepted-broadcom-sta-630223271-16exp1-source-all-into-experimental/
It includes some patches to improve txpower, mac setting, etc.
Cheers,
--
Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo
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