[Software] Missing Broadcom Firmware on Bookworm

[mathi]

I use bookworm as my OS and i have this network controller

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries BCM43225 802.11b/g/n [14e4:4357] (rev 01)

As of now, "dmesg" gives the following error.

[ 60.592279] brcmsmac bcma0:1: firmware: failed to load brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw (-2)
[ 60.593680] firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for information about missing firmware
[ 60.594859] brcmsmac bcma0:1: firmware: failed to load brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw (-2)
[ 60.596002] brcmsmac bcma0:1: Direct firmware load for brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw failed with error -2
[ 60.597952] brcmsmac bcma0:1: firmware: failed to load brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw (-2)
[ 60.599311] brcmsmac bcma0:1: firmware: failed to load brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw (-2)
[ 60.600409] brcmsmac bcma0:1: Direct firmware load for brcm/bcm43xx-0.fw failed with error -2

The missing firmware is found in the package "firmware-brcm80211", but this package is missing in bookworm. How to get this Network controller working with bookworm?

[Aki]

Hello,

Probably your apt configuration does not include the new "non-free-firmware" Debian's repository section (recently introduced in Debian Bookworm) to update all the required firmware; you can do it adding the "non-free-firmware" section to /etc/apt/sources.list , for example:

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deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main non-free-firmware

then you can issue the following commands (as root user):

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apt update

Then you should find the package.

[sunrat]

Moved to Testing/Sid subforum

[wizard10000]

Was also missing in Sid until two days ago. It should be in Bookworm shortly

[mrjcd]

yeahuh you need the non-free in sources.list somewhat likey so:

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deb https://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

Bookworm with BCM43142 a minor bleeb ( viewtopic.php?t=153191 ) when went to K6 but has been good ever since