Package: broadcom-sta-dkms Version: 6.30.223.271-4 Severity: important Tags: newcomer
Seems like somethings changed between 4.7 and 4.8 making it impossible to reset your connection in case of any of the numerous bugs wl might bump in to. Only solution is to reboot your system.. [ 26.502213] wl driver 6.30.223.271 (r587334) failed with code 1 [ 26.502216] ERROR @wl_cfg80211_detach : NULL ndev->ieee80211ptr, unable to deref wl Also looks like there's a fix in AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/broadcom-wl-dkms/ (See 004-linux48.patch) -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.8.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 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) Versions of packages broadcom-sta-dkms depends on: ii dkms 2.3-1 Versions of packages broadcom-sta-dkms recommends: ii wireless-tools 30~pre9-12 broadcom-sta-dkms suggests no packages. -- Configuration Files: /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-dkms.conf changed [not included] -- no debconf information
