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broadcom-sta package

  1. Mantic (23.10)
  2. Bug #2013236
  3. Comment #37

Comment 37 for bug 2013236

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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote :

In Ubuntu we recommend to only install broadcom-sta-dkms.
It ships modprobe.d snippet that does prevent automatic loading of b43 driver.

# cat /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-dkms.conf
# wl module from Broadcom conflicts with the following modules:
blacklist b43
blacklist b43legacy
blacklist b44
blacklist bcma
blacklist brcm80211
blacklist brcmsmac
blacklist ssb

broadcom-sta-source doesn't do anything but does reocmmend module-assistant, if one uses that it probably is best to switch to the dkms package. Separately broadcom-sta-common is provided that could be installed together with boradcom-sta-source to also gain the blacklist modprobe.d. Not quite sure what is the point there, maybe we can make broadcom-sta-source depends on broadcom-sta-common, or simply remove it.

My expectation was that this is all solved already back in lunar =/

Shall I ship modprobe.d snippet in more places? and have initramfs hook to ensure initramfs is regenerated with updated modprobe.d? What's wrong with the gui that seems to not show things correctly?