Bug#1030914: firmware-brcm80211 causes system to freeze and reboot

[Mathirajan S. Manoharan]

i installed 20230117-2 from unstable. Also installed 
20221214-5
 from the archive.


Both have similar issues on my system. For a moment everything looks fine and 
wifi starts working. In a few minutes the system freezes and after a little 
while it reboots.


I managed to capture just a little more information from dmesg this time before 
the system froze


[5.792752] brcmsmac bcma0:1: firmware: direct-loading firmware 
brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw
[5.793398] brcmsmac bcma0:1: firmware: direct-loading firmware 
brcm/bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw
[5.821173] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos enabled: false 
(implement)
[5.821190] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_config: change power-save mode: 
false (implement)
[5.873283] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos enabled: false 
(implement)
[5.873297] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_config: change power-save mode: 
false (implement)
[5.879522] r8188eu 1-3:1.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware 
rtlwifi/rtl8188eufw.bin
[5.879537] r8188eu 1-3:1.0: Firmware Version 11, SubVersion 1, Signature 
0x88e1
[7.880849] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos enabled: false 
(implement)
[7.880861] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_config: change power-save mode: 
false (implement)
[7.922274] wlp2s0b1: authenticate with cc:40:d0:bf:a6:9b
[7.922291] wlp2s0b1: 80 MHz not supported, disabling VHT
[7.924184] wlp2s0b1: send auth to cc:40:d0:bf:a6:9b (try 1/3)
[7.932168] wlp2s0b1: authenticated
[7.933930] wlp2s0b1: associate with cc:40:d0:bf:a6:9b (try 1/3)
[7.941922] wlp2s0b1: RX AssocResp from cc:40:d0:bf:a6:9b (capab=0x1411 
status=0 aid=12)
[7.944845] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcmsmac: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: 
associated
[7.944854] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos enabled: true 
(implement)
[7.944869] wlp2s0b1: associated
[7.963442] brcmsmac bcma0:1: wl0: brcms_c_d11hdrs_mac80211:  txop exceeded 
phylen 159/256 dur 1778/1504
[7.992602] brcmsmac bcma0:1: wl0: brcms_c_d11hdrs_mac80211:  txop exceeded 
phylen 137/256 dur 1602/1504
[8.034158] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlp2s0b1: link becomes ready
[9.068221] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: arp filtering: 1 
addresses (implement)
[9.432645] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlx00e02dba0563: link becomes 
ready
[   12.674154] usb 1-5.4: reset high-speed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd
[   52.564491] wlp2s0b1: deauthenticating from cc:40:d0:bf:a6:9b by local 
choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)
[   52.630119] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcmsmac: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: 
disassociated
[   52.630140] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: arp filtering: 1 
addresses (implement)
[   52.630148] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos enabled: false 
(implement)
[   52.713824] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos enabled: false 
(implement)
[   52.713844] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_config: change power-save mode: 
false (implement)


Please let me know if you need any more logs. I can upload them.

Bug#1030914: firmware-brcm80211 causes system to freeze and reboot

[Diederik de Haas]

On Thursday, 9 February 2023 05:17:24 CET Mathirajan S. Manoharan wrote:
> Package: firmware-brcm80211
> Version: 20221214-5
> 
> My system has the following network card
> 02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM43225
> 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4357] (rev 01)
> 
> If i install the firmware for this card (firmware-brcm80211), the system
> freezes and reboots by itself.

Unstable has version 20230117-2. Does the problem still occur with that?
If so, via https://snapshot.debian.org/binary/firmware-brcm80211/ you can find 
older versions. It could/would be useful to know with which version it does 
work as expected.

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Bug#1030914: firmware-brcm80211 causes system to freeze and reboot

[Mathirajan S. Manoharan]

Package: firmware-brcm80211
Version: 20221214-5
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: mathi...@hotmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?

My system has the following network card
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM43225 
802.11b/g/n [14e4:4357] (rev 01)

If i install the firmware for this card (firmware-brcm80211), the system 
freezes and reboots by itself.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
 ineffective)?

install the firmware with the command "sudo nala install firmware-brcm80211"
This causes the system to freeze and reboot.

I could not even collect any logs. When the system boots up, "dmesg" is clean. 
There are no errors.

Please let me know if there is somewhere else i should be looking for logs, 
errors and useful info to troubleshoot this issue.

   * What was the outcome of this action?

Installing the firmware gets the network card to work. But in a short while (1 
min approx) the system freezes and reboots.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

I expect the system to funtion normally and not freeze/reboot

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN, TAINT_CRAP
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

firmware-brcm80211 depends on no packages.

firmware-brcm80211 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firmware-brcm80211 suggests:
ii  initramfs-tools  0.142