Package: b43-fwcutter Version: 1:011-5 Severity: important -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160
When upgrading from Etch to Lenny, b43-fwcutter is not automatically installed even if bcm43xx-fwcutter was previously installed. This obviously make the wireless card to stop working (at least on the iBook G4) once the kernel get upgraded from 2.6.18 to 2.6.26, so we have a lost of functionality when upgrading to Lenny. That in itself is not too bad, as it can easily be fixed by manually installing b43-fwcutter. Well, at least if the GUI and XOrg is still working properly after upgrading. If not, you have a problem because the text terminal is barely usable, thanks to khelper who continously call ifplugd and cause it to print the following 4 lines every second on the terminal: input: b43-phy0 as /class/input/input208 firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file "b43/ucode5.fw" not found or load failed. b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware and download the latest firmware (version 4). The only thing needed to be able to upgrade directly from Etch to Lenny is a virtual package named bcm43xx-fwcutter that would install b43-fwcutter (and maybe also remove the old bcm43xx-fwcutter and bcm43xx-source packages). Since it is very easy to do, and that it give a much better user experience when upgrading from Etch, I don't see a reasons for not doing this in Lenny. Thank you in advance, Simon Valiquette http://gulus.USherbrooke.ca - -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-vserver-powerpc (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=fr_CA, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash - -- debconf information: b43-fwcutter/cut_firmware: true -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEAREDAAYFAkl9eTgACgkQJPE+P+aMAJKfwACdGPg4amyJ8nG+5rdk0k2ulQZu 5CYAn2xTurbSdLL5Jdm9AMff80GrcH2N =H0OD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
