wireless card – Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:43ec](BCM4356) needs firmware

Two commits of linux-firmware can fix this problem：

commit 3bb141ac9cef56e2c3062ef6d747665d8931347a
Author: Arend van Spriel <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Oct 23 11:21:48 2015 +0200

    brcm: update firmware for the BCM4356 PCIe device

    Publishing new firmware for the BCM4356 11ac PCIe device.

    Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <email address hidden>
    Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <email address hidden>

commit 64444e076d07b3021a2ad87931840408fcee018a
Author: Arend van Spriel <email address hidden>
Date: Fri Mar 20 13:44:00 2015 +0100

    brcm: add firmware for BCM4356 PCIe device

    Signed-off-by: Arend van Spriel <email address hidden>
    Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <email address hidden>

The merge request is here:

https://code.launchpad.net/~hui.wang/ubuntu/vivid/linux-firmware/linux-firmware-vivid-proposed/+merge/277954

We don't use LP merge requests for linux-firmware, also we generally prefer direct cherry picks of the relevant commits.

I can apply those commits - is vivid the only release which needs them? Seems like trusty might also want them for the lts-vivid kernel. 3bb141ac9cef56e2c3062ef6d747665d8931347a is also missing from wily, so seems like we'd probably want that one there too?

OK, got it. I will not send LP merge request for linux-firmware in future.

I checked Trusty and Wily, you are right.

Trusy needs:
64444e076d07b3021a2ad87931840408fcee018a
3bb141ac9cef56e2c3062ef6d747665d8931347a

Vivid needs:
64444e076d07b3021a2ad87931840408fcee018a
3bb141ac9cef56e2c3062ef6d747665d8931347a

Wily needs:
3bb141ac9cef56e2c3062ef6d747665d8931347a

By the way, where can I find linux-firmware git tree for trusty, vivid and wily, I only found bazzar respoitory for them.

The repo is at https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-kernel/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware.

I'll cherry pick those commits.

Hello Hui, or anyone else affected,

Accepted linux-firmware into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/1.127.19 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Hello Hui, or anyone else affected,

Accepted linux-firmware into vivid-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/1.143.7 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Hello Hui, or anyone else affected,

Accepted linux-firmware into wily-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/1.149.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

I don't have hardware, but I did verify that all packages in proposed have the needed file and install without issues.

This bug was fixed in the package linux-firmware - 1.127.19

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linux-firmware (1.127.19) trusty; urgency=medium

  * Add firmware for Broadcom BCM4356 wireless
    brcm: add firmware for BCM4356 PCIe device
    brcm: update firmware for the BCM4356 PCIe device
    -LP: #1517726

 -- Seth Forshee <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Nov 2015 10:11:41 -0600

The verification of the Stable Release Update for linux-firmware has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

This bug was fixed in the package linux-firmware - 1.143.7

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linux-firmware (1.143.7) vivid; urgency=medium

  * Add firmware for Broadcom BCM4356 wireless.
    brcm: add firmware for BCM4356 PCIe device
    brcm: update firmware for the BCM4356 PCIe device
    -LP: #1517726

 -- Seth Forshee <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Nov 2015 10:15:43 -0600

This bug was fixed in the package linux-firmware - 1.149.3

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linux-firmware (1.149.3) wily; urgency=medium

  * brcm: update firmware for the BCM4356 PCIe device
    -LP: #1517726

 -- Seth Forshee <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Nov 2015 07:54:28 -0600