On 14/07/2025 14:50, Mathias Gibbens wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jul 2025 11:28:38 +0900 John Crawley <j...@bunsenlabs.org> wrote:
This bug report has been tagged "patch" but there seems to be no patch
available.
I tagged with patch because I think the fix is just a one line change
in the postinst script:
diff --git a/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst
b/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst
index f287e3e..6de631c 100644
--- a/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst
+++ b/debian/firmware-b43-installer.postinst
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ fi
DOWNLOAD="${BROADCOM_WL}.tar.bz2"
-URL="https://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/${DOWNLOAD}";
+URL="https://github.com/minios-linux/b43-firmware/releases/download/b43-firmware/${DOWNLOAD}";
FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/usr/lib/firmware"
There's concern about hosting of the firmware files, but that problem
pre-dates this issue where the website referenced by the script has
disappeared.
I guess I'll go ahead and prepare an unblock pre-approval request; if
the RT approves I'll then do a QA upload of this package.
Mathias
There still seem to be machines in active use that need that firmware, so an
upgrade would be welcome.
Ofc the firmware itself is in a grey area, but I don't know of any other way to
get it.
--
John
