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IDProjectCategoryView StatusLast Update
0004917Kali LinuxGeneral Bugpublic2019-05-22 10:05
Reporterrascal Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status closedResolutionsuspended 
Product Version2018.2 
Summary0004917: Broadcom BCM4356 not working after latest upgrade
Description

Broadcom Limited BCM4356 wireless card not working after latest apt upgrade.

04:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Limited BCM4356 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (rev 02)
Subsystem: Lenovo BCM4356 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 18
Memory at e1400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32K]
Memory at e1000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] MSI: Enable- Count=1/16 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [68] Vendor Specific Information: Len=44 <?>
Capabilities: [ac] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [13c] Device Serial Number 00-00-30-ff-ff-3c-94-53
Capabilities: [150] Power Budgeting <?>
Capabilities: [160] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [1b0] Latency Tolerance Reporting
Capabilities: [220] 0000015
Capabilities: [240] L1 PM Substates
Kernel modules: brcmfmac

$ dmesg
10.440540] brcmfmac 0000:04:00.0: firmware: failed to load brcm/brcmfmac4356-pcie.bin (-2)
[ 10.440545] firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for information about missing firmware

/lib/firmware/brcm$ ls -la
total 15204
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 20 10:12 .
drwxr-xr-x 56 root root 20480 Aug 20 10:12 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 96224 Jul 26 18:56 bcm43xx-0.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 180 Jul 26 18:56 bcm43xx_hdr-0.fw
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 397312 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac43143.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 385067 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac43143-sdio.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 348160 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac43236b.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 455745 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac43241b0-sdio.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 403855 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac43241b4-sdio.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 408682 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac43241b5-sdio.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 479232 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac43242a.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 253748 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac4329-sdio.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 222126 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac4330-sdio.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 402210 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac43340-sdio.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 451566 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac4334-sdio.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 569291 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac4335-sdio.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 219557 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac43362-sdio.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 562183 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac4339-sdio.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 382455 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac43430a0-sdio.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 369577 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac43430-sdio.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 488193 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac43455-sdio.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 623304 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac4350c2-pcie.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 626140 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac4350-pcie.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 626589 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac4354-sdio.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 557056 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac43569.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 661999 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac4356-pcie.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 526383 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac4356-sdio.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 550333 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac43570-pcie.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 633817 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac4358-pcie.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 595472 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac43602-pcie.ap.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 635449 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac43602-pcie.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 989401 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac4366b-pcie.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 623448 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac4371-pcie.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 479232 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac4373.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 457994 Jul 26 18:56 brcmfmac4373-sdio.bin

$ rfkill list
0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

Had the same bug on Ubuntu 18.10 where downgrading firmware-linux helped, but would like to skip this if possible.

Activities

rascal

rascal

2018-08-20 08:38

reporter   ~0009477

Linux 4.17.0-kali1-amd64 0000001 SMP Debian 4.17.8-1kali1 (2018-07-24) x86_64 GNU/Linux
DISTRIB_ID=Kali
DISTRIB_RELEASE=kali-rolling
DISTRIB_CODENAME=kali-rolling
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling"
PRETTY_NAME="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling"
NAME="Kali GNU/Linux"
ID=kali
VERSION="2018.3"
VERSION_ID="2018.3"
ID_LIKE=debian

rascal

rascal

2018-08-20 08:55

reporter   ~0009478

dpkg -l |grep firmware
ii amd64-microcode 3.20180524.1 amd64 Processor microcode firmware for AMD CPUs
ii atmel-firmware 1.3-4 all Firmware for Atmel at76c50x wireless networking chips.
ii b43-fwcutter 1:019-3 amd64 utility for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware
ii bluez-firmware 1.2-4 all Firmware for Bluetooth devices
ii dahdi-firmware-nonfree 2.11.1.0.20170917-1 all DAHDI non-free firmware
ii firmware-amd-graphics 20180518-1 all Binary firmware for AMD/ATI graphics chips
ii firmware-ath9k-htc 1.4.0-97-g75b3e59+dfsg-1 all QCA ath9k-htc Firmware
ii firmware-atheros 20180518-1 all Binary firmware for Atheros wireless cards
ii firmware-b43-installer 1:019-3 all firmware installer for the b43 driver
ii firmware-b43legacy-installer 1:019-3 all firmware installer for the b43legacy driver
ii firmware-bnx2 20180518-1 all Binary firmware for Broadcom NetXtremeII
ii firmware-bnx2x 20180518-1 all Binary firmware for Broadcom NetXtreme II 10Gb
ii firmware-brcm80211 20180518-1 all Binary firmware for Broadcom/Cypress 802.11 wireless cards
ii firmware-cavium 20180518-1 all Binary firmware for Cavium Ethernet adapters
ii firmware-intel-sound 20180518-1 all Binary firmware for Intel sound DSPs
ii firmware-intelwimax 20180518-1 all Binary firmware for Intel WiMAX Connection
ii firmware-ipw2x00 20180518-1 all Binary firmware for Intel Pro Wireless 2100, 2200 and 2915
ii firmware-ivtv 20180518-1 all Binary firmware for iTVC15-family MPEG codecs (ivtv and pvrusb2 drivers)
ii firmware-iwlwifi 20180518-1 all Binary firmware for Intel Wireless cards
ii firmware-libertas 20180518-1 all Binary firmware for Marvell wireless cards
ii firmware-linux 20180518-1 all Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel (meta-package)
ii firmware-linux-free 3.4 all Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
ii firmware-linux-nonfree 20180518-1 all Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel (meta-package)
ii firmware-misc-nonfree 20180518-1 all Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel
ii firmware-myricom 20180518-1 all Binary firmware for Myri-10G Ethernet adapters
ii firmware-netxen 20180518-1 all Binary firmware for QLogic Intelligent Ethernet (3000 and 3100 Series)
ii firmware-qlogic 20180518-1 all Binary firmware for QLogic HBAs
ii firmware-realtek 20180518-1 all Binary firmware for Realtek wired/wifi/BT adapters
ii firmware-samsung 20180518-1 all Binary firmware for Samsung MFC video codecs
ii firmware-siano 20180518-1 all Binary firmware for Siano MDTV receivers
ii firmware-ti-connectivity 20180518-1 all Binary firmware for TI Connectivity wifi and BT/FM/GPS adapters
ii firmware-zd1211 1:1.5-4 all binary firmware for the zd1211rw wireless driver
ii hdmi2usb-fx2-firmware 0.0.0~git20151225-1 all FX2 firmware for hdmi2usb board development
ii intel-microcode 3.20180703.2 amd64 Processor microcode firmware for Intel CPUs

g0tmi1k

g0tmi1k

2019-05-22 10:05

administrator   ~0010609

Due to the age of the OS (Kali Moto [v1], Kali Safi [v2], Kali Rolling <= 2018.3), these legacy versions are no longer supported.
We will be closing this ticket due to inactivity.

Please could you see if you are able to replicate this issue with the latest version of Kali Linux - https://www.kali.org/downloads/)?

If you are still facing the same problem, feel free to re-open the ticket. If you choose to do this, could you provide more information to the issue you are facing, and also give information about your setup?
For more information, please read: https://kali.training/topic/filing-a-good-bug-report/

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2018-08-20 08:33 rascal New Issue
2018-08-20 08:38 rascal Note Added: 0009477
2018-08-20 08:55 rascal Note Added: 0009478
2018-08-31 00:25 elwood Status new => acknowledged
2019-05-22 10:05 g0tmi1k Status acknowledged => closed
2019-05-22 10:05 g0tmi1k Resolution open => suspended
2019-05-22 10:05 g0tmi1k Note Added: 0010609