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Message #132819
[Bug 1490212] Re: "Modaliases" field missing from debian control file
Back onto software-properties-gtk, the "this device is not working" is
very unreliable. I'm not sure how it works this out, but it doesn't
seem to account for the firmware being manually installed or through
e.g. the linux-firmware-nonfree package which also contains b43
firmware.
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Title:
"Modaliases" field missing from debian control file
Status in b43-fwcutter package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in software-properties package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
The b43 module is not listed as an option by the "additional drivers"
section of the software-properties-gtk utility. This takes its
information from the ubuntu-drivers-common package and a bug has been
reported against that package
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-drivers-
common/+bug/1186779 ).
However, if I'm reading things correctly, the firmware-b43-installer
package could solve this by providing a modaliases field in the debian
control file. For example, the bcmwl-kernel-source package has the
line:
Modaliases: wl(pci:v000014E4d*sv*sd*bc02sc80i*)
This would be scanned by the ubuntu-drivers-common package and
consequently appear in software-properties-gtk.
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