Package: broadcom-sta-dkms
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
the driver does not work with Broadcom BCM4352 as installed in Dell XPS 13
Developer Edition, v 9343.
* What led up to the situation?
Installation of Debian 8 from debian-8.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso on Dell XPS 13
DE.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Installation of broadcom-sta-dkms is partially effective, insofar as the
module loads and apparently the hardware is detected. This leads to the
creation of the wlan0 interface. However, the interface does not allow to
scan for access points (via wicd) and manual configuration via
/etc/network/interfaces does not lead to a working WiFi connection, though
the same configuration works on other Debian machines with the same AP.
* What was the outcome of this action?
No functional WiFi.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Functional WiFi.
Further remarks:
- I am forced to submit this report not from the installation
in question, but from another computer, because I was not able to get Debian
into a usable state on the XPS 13. System information below is therefore only
approximate.
- Installation from the original code downloaded from Broadcom,
hybrid-v35_64-nodebug-pcoem-6_30_223_248.tar.gz, failed because it appears
to not use the correct API calls for the current Linux kernel.
- There appears to be a package with a working driver for Ubuntu, with the
name bcmwl-kernel-source_6.30.223.141+bdcom-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb. I suspect
that Ubuntu patched the Broadcom code to compile on current kernels. It is
possible that these patched could be adapted for Debian.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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