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[Adam Smith <1490212@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Mathieu for your interest in this.

If you use a patch similar to that in comment #2 then yes you could
argue that is good enough to fix this (but it is much better to tell the
user a reboot is needed too).  However, it is not optimal.  If you use
modalises as in comment #13 then I think that needs changes in software-
properties or  yet more changes to the b43 installer package.

The problem is if people are experimenting,  installing, removing then
reinstalling the b43 installer package, they could be in the situation
that the package is in the apt cache and can be installed without an
internet connection.  The download of the firmware will fail without an
internet connection, but the user has no way of knowing this thanks to
the fix in  debian bug 781544

Now you could solve this by not deleting the firmware when the b43
-firmware-installer is removed, and only delete it when it is purged.
That seems to make sense to me and I probably should of thought of it
before.

There is no point adding the modalises, without the other fixes,
otherwise it is going to cause problems.

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Title:
  "Modaliases" field missing from debian control file

Status in b43-fwcutter package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in software-properties package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

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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