[Bug 1490212] Re: "Modaliases" field missing from debian control file

[Martin Pitt]

Subscribing kernel team. Is this driver really something which we should
offer to users via graphical means (and thus make it very easy)? It
seems we've had  three drivers (b43 with fwcutter, bcmwl, and now the
relatively new bcma one). Which of these do we actually still support?
We can't expect that users are qualified to pick between these three,
that's our job.

** Changed in: b43-fwcutter (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Incomplete

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Title:
  "Modaliases" field missing from debian control file

Status in b43-fwcutter package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in software-properties package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  The b43 module is not listed as an option by the "additional drivers"
  section of the software-properties-gtk utility.  This takes its
  information from the ubuntu-drivers-common package and a bug has been
  reported against that package
  (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-drivers-
  common/+bug/1186779 ).

  However, if I'm reading things correctly, the firmware-b43-installer
  package could solve this by providing a modaliases field in the debian
  control file.  For example, the bcmwl-kernel-source package has the
  line:

  Modaliases: wl(pci:v000014E4d*sv*sd*bc02sc80i*)

  This would be scanned by the ubuntu-drivers-common package and
  consequently appear in software-properties-gtk.

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