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Bug#977702: firmware-brcm80211: brcmfmac43455 on RPi4 causes hostapd to fail silently

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  Bug#977702: firmware-brcm80211: brcmfmac43455 on RPi4 causes hostapd to fail silently Russell Ault <russell@auksnest.ca> - 2020-12-19 07:30 +0100
    Bug#977702: marked as done (firmware-brcm80211: brcmfmac43455 on  RPi4 causes hostapd to fail silently) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2021-03-13 17:20 +0100

#68948 — Bug#977702: firmware-brcm80211: brcmfmac43455 on RPi4 causes hostapd to fail silently

Package: firmware-brcm80211
Version: 20200918-1~bop10+1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Steps to reproduce:
1. flash latest tested Raspberry Pi 4 image and boot
2. update all packages
3. install hostapd
4. configure the onboard wlan device as an 802.11n AP

Expected results:
AP works

Actual results:
hostapd claims the AP is enabled, but it's actually not

Work-around:
1.  apt purge firmware-brcm80211
2.  cp /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43455.* from a current stable Raspbian
    install
    - this appears to work even despite the fact that
      Raspbian is 32-bit
    - the driver still throws a warning about a missing
      brcmfmac43455-sdio.raspberrypi,4-model-b.txt file, but
      this file is not included with stable Raspbian, and its absence
      doesn't appear to cause any problems beyond the warning

The brcmfmac43455 firmware in firmware-brcm80211 appears to be much
older than what Raspbian stable is currently shipping

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 10.7
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates')
Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)

Kernel: Linux 5.9.0-0.bpo.2-arm64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_CRAP
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

firmware-brcm80211 depends on no packages.

firmware-brcm80211 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firmware-brcm80211 suggests:
ii  initramfs-tools  0.133+deb10u1

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#69802 — Bug#977702: marked as done (firmware-brcm80211: brcmfmac43455 on RPi4 causes hostapd to fail silently)

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