Andreas, thanks for the bug fix. It is working.
But there still is a minor cosmetic bug, not influencing the correct
working of the package.
The display of an unknown card will never work, because it displays the
list of unsupported cards.
Besides the lspci-command also detects the wired ne
Tags: patch
Improved patch is included, which contains correct indentation.
It also displays more information about the chosen version of firmware.
#!/bin/sh
set -e
#
make_download_vars()
{
if [ -n "$latest" ]; then
Script postinst of package firmware-b43-installer is modified to load
the classic firmware for broadcom-cards,
according to note at
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_wireless#b43
Logic is added to also load the correct version, in case the firmware is
unconditionally loaded.
N
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_wireless#b43
contains the next note, suggesting to use b43-firmware-classic for
BCM4311 and other named cards.
Package b43-firmware-classic uses old firmware version 5.100.138.
*Note:*
* BCM4306 rev.3, BCM4311, BCM4312 and BCM4318 rev.2 have b
I think it should be a bug to package firmware-b43-installer.
It is an old problem with version 6.30.163.46.
See e.g. https://bugs.gentoo.org/541080
Package: b43-fwcutter
Version: 1:019-5
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer,
After the recent upgrade to package firmware-b43-installer_019-5_all wifi
connection was extremely slow causing e.g. timeouts at Firefox.
This package contains firmware version 6.30.16
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