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