On 17-01-02 04:04 AM, Eduard Bloch wrote: > * Steven Monai [Sun, Jan 01 2017, 12:59:22PM]: >> I wanted to try downgrading to the previous version of the package, >> but it appears that the sid version recently migrated to stretch, >> and so I can only find the jessie and jessie-backports versions. > > You can find them on http://snapshot.debian.org/package/broadcom-sta/
Thanks! How was I not aware of this fantastic resource? > However, I doubt this alone will solve your problem. I sometimes get > this kind of hickups, and they don't go away, even with a reboot. What > helps is a real power cycle (i.e. pull the battery, wait some seconds, > reinstall). If true, this really sucks. I don't want to believe that I need to resort to voodoo techniques to get hardware working. :( [Some time passes...] So I tried downgrading the broadcom-sta-dkms package to the previous version (6.30.223.271-4), and there was no change, unfortunately. :( Next, I decided to try a scientific approach, systematically downgrading the other packages that directly affect wifi, namely the network-manager and wpasupplicant packages. So I restored the broadcom-sta-dkms package back to the current version, and proceeded to use dpkg to directly install the .deb files for network-manager and wpasupplicant downloaded from snapshot.debian.org. Summary of my findings: Downgrading network-manager made no difference. I tried the previous two package versions (1.4.2-3 and 1.4.2-2). Downgrading wpasupplicant, however, resulted in a successful wifi connection! Specifically, the version of wpasupplicant currently in stretch (2.5-2+v2.4-3+b1) works for me, with the other two packages (broadcom-sta-dkms and network-manager) at their latest versions in sid. So, for now, I have put a hold on the wpasupplicant package, to keep version 2.5-2+v2.4-3+b1 installed. Eduard: Should this information be shared with the wpasupplicant package maintainer(s)? It seems like there could be some kind of incompatibility between the the latest versions of broadcom-sta-dkms and wpasupplicant. Steven M.
