[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#877575: network-manager: brcmfmac fails to load firmware

[Michael Biebl]

Control: forcemerge 836280 -1

On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 11:49:22 +1100 Erik de Castro Lopo
<erikd at mega-nerd.com> wrote:
> Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> 
> > >     https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=836280
> > Can you be more specific how this bug report is different to #836280?
> 
> Its not. Should I reopen the previous bug?

Well, the previous bug is not closed. So this is just another duplicate.
Thus merging

> > Why is a failure to load a firmware a network-manager bug?
> 
> Last time I raise this against the kernel and it was redirected to
> network-manager and it was fixed when a new version of network-manager
> was released.

In the end I think it's a driver bug and the workarounds that were
applied previously are no proper fix.

Have you tried disabling mac randomization?


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