[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#577438: base: b43 driver won't work anymore

[Eric Viseur]

Package: base
Severity: important

b43 driver won't work anymore with bcm4318 chip.  I installed the correct firmware using b43-fwcutter.  Worked like a charm with Lenny and early Squeeze kernels, stopped working with 2.6.32.
I have no errors in dmesg : the chip just starts, then the links goes down and neither network-manager or wireless-tools see any networks.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash