MGA8-64 MATE on Acer Aspire 5253
No installation issues.
This laptop has no Broadcom HW, but rebooted after installation to make sure there are no ill effects on the system. Wifi works OK.

CC: (none) => herman.viaene

My first test was on an install where I was testing the 6.0 series kernel from backports, where the build had failed. The build for this update was successful, but because that hardware doesn't include a broadcom device, I was unable to test for function.

My next test was on a HP Probook 6550b MGA8-64 Plasma install that does have an internal Broadcom device. The kernel had been recently updated to 5.15.79, and the old broadcom-wl had built and functioned correctly. This update did the same, with no issues.

Next tests were on the same hardware, but on a 32-bit Xfce install using the server kernel. The first was with the 5.15.79.kernel, and was again successful. I then updated to the 6.0.9 server kernel from backports_testing, and that was also successful.

OKing this for both arches, and validating.

CC: (none) => andrewsfarm, sysadmin-bugs
Keywords: (none) => validated_update
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA8-32-OK MGA8-64-OK

Presario C700 / Broadcom BCM3411

uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 5.15.74-desktop-1.mga8 #1 SMP Sat Oct 15 19:19:46 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed:
  Package                        Version      Release       Arch    
(medium "Core Updates Testing (distrib5)")
  glibc                          2.32         29.mga8       x86_64  
  glibc-devel                    2.32         29.mga8       x86_64  
3.5KB of additional disk space will be used.
7.8MB of packages will be retrieved.
Proceed with the installation of the 2 packages? (Y/n) y

urpmi dkms-broadcom-wl broadcom-wl-common kernel-desktop-latest kernel-desktop-devel-latest
To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed:
  Package                        Version      Release       Arch    
(medium "Core Updates Testing (distrib5)")
  kernel-desktop-5.15.79-1.mga8  1            1.mga8        x86_64  
  kernel-desktop-devel-5.15.79-> 1            1.mga8        x86_64  
  kernel-desktop-devel-latest    5.15.79      1.mga8        x86_64  
  kernel-desktop-latest          5.15.79      1.mga8        x86_64  
(medium "Nonfree Updates Testing (distrib15)")
  broadcom-wl-common             6.30.223.271 65.mga8.nonf> x86_64  
  dkms-broadcom-wl               6.30.223.271 65.mga8.nonf> x86_64  
128MB of additional disk space will be used.
83MB of packages will be retrieved.
Proceed with the installation of the 6 packages? (Y/n) y
~

~
+ /usr/sbin/dkms --rpm_safe_upgrade add -m broadcom-wl -v 6.30.223.271-65.mga8.nonfree

Creating symlink /var/lib/dkms/broadcom-wl/6.30.223.271-65.mga8.nonfree/source ->
                 /usr/src/broadcom-wl-6.30.223.271-65.mga8.nonfree

DKMS: add Completed.
+ '[' -z '' ']'
+ /usr/sbin/dkms --rpm_safe_upgrade build -m broadcom-wl -v 6.30.223.271-65.mga8.nonfree

Preparing kernel 5.15.74-desktop-1.mga8 for module build:
(This is not compiling a kernel, just preparing kernel symbols)
Storing current .config to be restored when complete
Running Generic preparation routine
make mrproper....
using /proc/config.gz
make oldconfig....
make prepare....

Building module:
cleaning build area....
'make' -j1 -C /lib/modules/5.15.74-desktop-1.mga8/build M=$(pwd).......
cleaning build area....
cleaning kernel tree (make mrproper)....

DKMS: build Completed.
+ /usr/sbin/dkms --rpm_safe_upgrade install -m broadcom-wl -v 6.30.223.271-65.mga8.nonfree

wl.ko.xz:
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/5.15.74-desktop-1.mga8/dkms/3rdparty/broadcom-wl/

depmod...........

DKMS: install Completed.
+ /usr/sbin/dkms --rpm_safe_upgrade remove -m broadcom-wl -v 6.30.223.271-64.mga8.nonfree --all

-------- Uninstall Beginning --------
Module:  broadcom-wl
Version: 6.30.223.271-64.mga8.nonfree
Kernel:  5.15.74-desktop-1.mga8 (x86_64)
-------------------------------------

Status: This module version was INACTIVE for this kernel.
/usr/sbin/dkms: line 2006: echo: write error: Broken pipe
depmod.........

DKMS: uninstall Completed.

-------- Uninstall Beginning --------
Module:  broadcom-wl
Version: 6.30.223.271-64.mga8.nonfree
Kernel:  5.15.43-desktop-1.mga8 (x86_64)
-------------------------------------

Status: Before uninstall, this module version was ACTIVE on this kernel.

wl.ko.xz:
 - Uninstallation
   - Deleting from: /lib/modules/5.15.43-desktop-1.mga8/dkms/3rdparty/broadcom-wl/
 - Original module
   - No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
   - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.
depmod........

DKMS: uninstall Completed.

-------- Uninstall Beginning --------
Module:  broadcom-wl
Version: 6.30.223.271-64.mga8.nonfree
Kernel:  5.15.55-desktop-2.mga8 (x86_64)
-------------------------------------

Status: Before uninstall, this module version was ACTIVE on this kernel.

wl.ko.xz:
 - Uninstallation
   - Deleting from: /lib/modules/5.15.55-desktop-2.mga8/dkms/3rdparty/broadcom-wl/
 - Original module
   - No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
   - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.

depmod........

DKMS: uninstall Completed.

------------------------------
Deleting module version: 6.30.223.271-64.mga8.nonfree
completely from the DKMS tree.
------------------------------
Done.
~

~

broadcom-wl (6.30.223.271-65.mga8.nonfree): Installing module.
.....................
..........
Creating: target|kernel|dracut args|basicmodules 
/etc/dracut.conf.d/51-mageia-resume.conf:add_device+="UUID=931a1045-03aa-4a4d-92c3-30fe35b07cb1"
remove-boot-splash: Format of /boot/initrd-5.15.79-desktop-1.mga8.img not recognized
You should restart your computer for glibc, kernel-desktop-5.15.79-1.mga8

reboot

uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 5.15.79-desktop-1.mga8 #1 SMP Wed Nov 16 16:07:06 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


wifi up at desktop presentation

firefox access internet- ok

CC: (none) => westel

An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository.

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGAA-2022-0147.html

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED