Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?

My system has the following network card
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM43225 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4357] (rev 01)

If i install the firmware for this card (firmware-brcm80211), the system freezes and reboots by itself.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

install the firmware with the command "sudo nala install firmware-brcm80211"
This causes the system to freeze and reboot.

I could not even collect any logs. When the system boots up, "dmesg" is clean. There are no errors.

Please let me know if there is somewhere else i should be looking for logs, errors and useful info to troubleshoot this issue.

   * What was the outcome of this action?

Installing the firmware gets the network card to work. But in a short while (1 min approx) the system freezes and reboots.

   * What outcome did you expect instead?

I expect the system to funtion normally and not freeze/reboot

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Unstable has version 20230117-2. Does the problem still occur with that?
If so, via https://snapshot.debian.org/binary/firmware-brcm80211/ you can find
older versions. It could/would be useful to know with which version it does
work as expected.

i installed 20230117-2 from unstable. Also installed 20221214-5<https://snapshot.debian.org/package/firmware-nonfree/20221214-5/#firmware-brcm80211_20221214-5> from the archive.


Both have similar issues on my system. For a moment everything looks fine and wifi starts working. In a few minutes the system freezes and after a little while it reboots.


I managed to capture just a little more information from dmesg this time before the system froze


[    5.792752] brcmsmac bcma0:1: firmware: direct-loading firmware brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw
[    5.793398] brcmsmac bcma0:1: firmware: direct-loading firmware brcm/bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw
[    5.821173] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos enabled: false (implement)
[    5.821190] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_config: change power-save mode: false (implement)
[    5.873283] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos enabled: false (implement)
[    5.873297] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_config: change power-save mode: false (implement)
[    5.879522] r8188eu 1-3:1.0: firmware: direct-loading firmware rtlwifi/rtl8188eufw.bin
[    5.879537] r8188eu 1-3:1.0: Firmware Version 11, SubVersion 1, Signature 0x88e1
[    7.880849] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos enabled: false (implement)
[    7.880861] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_config: change power-save mode: false (implement)
[    7.922274] wlp2s0b1: authenticate with cc:40:d0:bf:a6:9b
[    7.922291] wlp2s0b1: 80 MHz not supported, disabling VHT
[    7.924184] wlp2s0b1: send auth to cc:40:d0:bf:a6:9b (try 1/3)
[    7.932168] wlp2s0b1: authenticated
[    7.933930] wlp2s0b1: associate with cc:40:d0:bf:a6:9b (try 1/3)
[    7.941922] wlp2s0b1: RX AssocResp from cc:40:d0:bf:a6:9b (capab=0x1411 status=0 aid=12)
[    7.944845] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcmsmac: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: associated
[    7.944854] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos enabled: true (implement)
[    7.944869] wlp2s0b1: associated
[    7.963442] brcmsmac bcma0:1: wl0: brcms_c_d11hdrs_mac80211:  txop exceeded phylen 159/256 dur 1778/1504
[    7.992602] brcmsmac bcma0:1: wl0: brcms_c_d11hdrs_mac80211:  txop exceeded phylen 137/256 dur 1602/1504
[    8.034158] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlp2s0b1: link becomes ready
[    9.068221] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: arp filtering: 1 addresses (implement)
[    9.432645] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlx00e02dba0563: link becomes ready
[   12.674154] usb 1-5.4: reset high-speed USB device number 7 using xhci_hcd
[   52.564491] wlp2s0b1: deauthenticating from cc:40:d0:bf:a6:9b by local choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)
[   52.630119] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcmsmac: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: disassociated
[   52.630140] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: arp filtering: 1 addresses (implement)
[   52.630148] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos enabled: false (implement)
[   52.713824] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_bss_info_changed: qos enabled: false (implement)
[   52.713844] brcmsmac bcma0:1: brcms_ops_config: change power-save mode: false (implement)


Please let me know if you need any more logs. I can upload them.