#668633 firmware-b43-installer: postinst does not work if second card present

#668633#5
Date:
2012-04-13 13:49:25 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

After installing Debian Wheezy on my notebook, I tried to activate my
wireless network. As dmesg said, it was not running due to missing
firmware. So I installed the firmware-b43-installer package, which
generated this output (shortened):

[...]
b43-fwcutter (1:015-14) wird eingerichtet ...
firmware-b43-installer (1:015-14) wird eingerichtet ...
No chroot environment found. Starting normal installation
root@wheezy64:~#

The firmware was not downloaded, even it said "starting normal
installation".
On this notebook there are two Broadcom-Cards:

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751M
Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 11)
04:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One
54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

The output of

# lspci -n | grep -o "14e4:[1234567890abcdef]\+"
14e4:167d
14e4:4318

seems to stop the postinst-script, ending up in doing nothing.
It would be of great use, if the package would do its job in such a
hardware environment.

I wrote this Bug-Report for a member of the "debianforum.de", to make
good software even better. You can find the corresponding thread here:
https://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=135664

Greetings, habakug

#668633#10
Date:
2012-04-16 09:58:05 UTC
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Are there some special reasons to open twice this bug?