[Testing - Trixie] Where is the broadcom-sta-dkms driver package?

[jfabernathy]

I'm experimenting with Trixie on a Macbook Pro that used broadcom-sta-dkms to make the WiFi work on Bookworm stable. I wanted to experiment with Hyprland and needed Trixie. I did not install broadcom-sta-dkms before I changed all the repo names from bookworm to trixie.

Is that what's needed? I can't find any broadcom packages for Trixie.

[Aki]

Hello,

The package is not already migrated from Debian Unstable (Sid) to Debian Testing (Trixie):

• https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/broadcom-sta

[jfabernathy]

Thanks for the explanation. I've only used Stable up to this point and not really familiar as to how things work beyond stable.

[jlarocco]

I'm not sure what to make of this, but I'm also running testing, and I was able to install broadcom-sta-dkms.

I had to enable 'nonfree' and 'non-free-firmware' in /etc/apt/sources.list:

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

[Aki]

Hello,

I'm not sure what to make of this, but I'm also running testing, and I was able to install broadcom-sta-dkms.

I had to enable 'nonfree' and 'non-free-firmware' in /etc/apt/sources.list:

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

@jlarocco:
I suspect your installation is not a current Debian Testing.

This is the log from my Debian Testing (Trixie); note: I obscured the repository address and port:

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# cat /etc/debian_version 
trixie/sid

# cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep "^[^#;]"
deb http://XX.XX.XX.XX:YYYY/debian/ testing main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

# apt policy
Package files:
 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     release a=now
 500 http://XX.XX.XX.XX:YYYY/debian testing/non-free-firmware amd64 Packages
     release o=Debian,a=testing,n=trixie,l=Debian,c=non-free-firmware,b=amd64
     origin XX.XX.XX.XX
 500 http://XX.XX.XX.XX:YYYY/debian testing/non-free amd64 Packages
     release o=Debian,a=testing,n=trixie,l=Debian,c=non-free,b=amd64
     origin XX.XX.XX.XX
 500 http://XX.XX.XX.XX:YYYY/debian testing/contrib amd64 Packages
     release o=Debian,a=testing,n=trixie,l=Debian,c=contrib,b=amd64
     origin XX.XX.XX.XX
 500 http://XX.XX.XX.XX:YYYY/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
     release o=Debian,a=testing,n=trixie,l=Debian,c=main,b=amd64
     origin XX.XX.XX.XX
Pinned packages:

# apt policy broadcom-sta-dkms
N: Unable to locate package broadcom-sta-dkms

As you can see, the broadcom-sta-dkms package is not found.

[sunrat]

One can always search the Debian Packages website to see where it is:
https://packages.debian.org/search?keyw ... m-sta-dkms
Yep, not currently in Testing.

[PeterB]

Looks like it should migrate in a couple of days.

Issues preventing migration:
∙ ∙ Too young, only 9 of 10 days old

Or you could just download the package now
https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/bro ... s/download

and install with gdebi-gtk

(gdebi is quite safe. It won't install anything if dependencies are not satisfied)

[jlarocco]

Hello,

I'm not sure what to make of this, but I'm also running testing, and I was able to install broadcom-sta-dkms.

I had to enable 'nonfree' and 'non-free-firmware' in /etc/apt/sources.list:

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

@jlarocco:
I suspect your installation is not a current Debian Testing.

This is the log from my Debian Testing (Trixie); note: I obscured the repository address and port:

Code: Select all

# cat /etc/debian_version 
trixie/sid

# cat /etc/apt/sources.list | grep "^[^#;]"
deb http://XX.XX.XX.XX:YYYY/debian/ testing main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

# apt policy
Package files:
 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     release a=now
 500 http://XX.XX.XX.XX:YYYY/debian testing/non-free-firmware amd64 Packages
     release o=Debian,a=testing,n=trixie,l=Debian,c=non-free-firmware,b=amd64
     origin XX.XX.XX.XX
 500 http://XX.XX.XX.XX:YYYY/debian testing/non-free amd64 Packages
     release o=Debian,a=testing,n=trixie,l=Debian,c=non-free,b=amd64
     origin XX.XX.XX.XX
 500 http://XX.XX.XX.XX:YYYY/debian testing/contrib amd64 Packages
     release o=Debian,a=testing,n=trixie,l=Debian,c=contrib,b=amd64
     origin XX.XX.XX.XX
 500 http://XX.XX.XX.XX:YYYY/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
     release o=Debian,a=testing,n=trixie,l=Debian,c=main,b=amd64
     origin XX.XX.XX.XX
Pinned packages:

# apt policy broadcom-sta-dkms
N: Unable to locate package broadcom-sta-dkms

As you can see, the broadcom-sta-dkms package is not found.

Actually, I didn't read the package log well enough - I still had the -23 version from before it was removed.

On a tangent, I've been running testing on this macbook for 2-3 years now, and I've had more upgrade issues in the last 3 weeks than in the previous 2 years combined. Part of that's Nvidia's fault for dropping support for the GPU, though.