Package: broadcom-sti-dkms Version: 6.30.223.271-26 I installed Debian Trixie/13.4 on a 2014-vintage MacbookPro (11,3) from the DVD image, as networking is not available from the install image. It contains a Broadcom 4360 v.3 wifi module, which is supported by the broadcom-sta proprietary driver.
I installed the broadcom-sta-dkms package to have it build the driver, and I did not see any error messages, but was unable to get the kernel to recognize the device. After much futzing, I discovered it had not built the resulting `wl` kernel module at all. I don't know why this wasn't obvious from output of any of the things I tried. It appears to have been a silent failure. After more futzing, I determined the reason the package couldn't build the kernel module was that the kernel headers simply weren't installed. Once I manually installed linux-headers-amd64, then the DKMS wl.ko.xz module was built and could be loaded into the kernel. It seems to me that broadcom-sti-dkms (or more likely, the dkms package) should have a hard requirement on linux-headers, which it doesn't currently have (either directly, or transitively as far as I can tell). Sorry I don't have any informative output to show - like I say, I didn't see any diagnostics regarding the building of the module with dkms when installing a kernel update or anything else. Thanks, Charles -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> Software, consulting, and services available at http://pyropus.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------------
