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(SOLVED)Minimal, vanilla Devuan i3 Jessie, Aspire One 725 wifi & sound

As far as I can ascertain, the Aspire One 725 uses a Broadcom BCM43228 card. I have followed the Debian wiki advice https://wiki.debian.org/wl. Here is the output:

# apt-get install linux-image-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') broadcom-sta-dkms
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
The following extra packages will be installed:
  cpp-4.8 dkms gcc gcc-4.8 gcc-4.9 libasan0 libasan1 libatomic1 libcilkrts5 libgcc-4.8-dev libgcc-4.9-dev libitm1 liblsan0 libtsan0 libubsan0
  linux-compiler-gcc-4.8-x86 linux-headers-3.16.0-5-amd64 linux-headers-3.16.0-5-common linux-image-3.16.0-5-amd64 linux-kbuild-3.16 make
Suggested packages:
  gcc-4.8-locales gcc-multilib manpages-dev autoconf automake libtool flex bison gdb gcc-doc gcc-4.8-multilib gcc-4.8-doc libgcc1-dbg libgomp1-dbg
  libitm1-dbg libatomic1-dbg libasan0-dbg libtsan0-dbg libquadmath0-dbg gcc-4.9-multilib gcc-4.9-doc gcc-4.9-locales libasan1-dbg liblsan0-dbg
  libubsan0-dbg libcilkrts5-dbg linux-doc-3.16 debian-kernel-handbook make-doc
Recommended packages:
  fakeroot linux-image libc6-dev libc-dev firmware-linux-free irqbalance
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  broadcom-sta-dkms cpp-4.8 dkms gcc gcc-4.8 gcc-4.9 libasan0 libasan1 libatomic1 libcilkrts5 libgcc-4.8-dev libgcc-4.9-dev libitm1 liblsan0
  libtsan0 libubsan0 linux-compiler-gcc-4.8-x86 linux-headers-3.16.0-5-amd64 linux-headers-3.16.0-5-common linux-headers-amd64
  linux-image-3.16.0-5-amd64 linux-image-amd64 linux-kbuild-3.16 make
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Loading new broadcom-sta-6.30.223.248 DKMS files...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building for 3.16.0-4-amd64 and 3.16.0-5-amd64
Module build for the currently running kernel was skipped since the
kernel source for this kernel does not seem to be installed.
Building initial module for 3.16.0-5-amd64
Done.

wl:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.16.0-5-amd64/updates/dkms/

depmod....

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Making new initrd.img-3.16.0-5-amd64
(If next boot fails, revert to initrd.img-3.16.0-5-amd64.old-dkms image)
update-initramfs....

DKMS: install completed.
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update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-5-amd64
root@stealth:/home/username# modprobe -r b44 b43 b43legacy ssb brcmsmac bcma
# modprobe wl

However, I still have no functioning wifi.

Regarding sound, the Aspire One 725 has a Realtek ALC271X sound card, and I have firmware-realtech and PulseAudio installed and can see movement in pavucontrol. When I try to run volti in a terminal, I get:

$ volti
[alsactrl.py:__init__:41] can't open Master control for card Generic, trying to select first available mixer channel

[alsactrl.py:__init__:49] can't open first available control for card Generic
error: list index out of range
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/volti", line 53, in <module>
    volti = main.VolumeTray()
  File "/usr/lib/volti/volti/main.py", line 124, in __init__
    self.watchid = gobject.io_add_watch(fd, eventmask, self.update)
TypeError: an integer is required

Any ideas?

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Hmm. OK, I wasn't aware that there is a button to unmute in pavucontrol as I always use volti (which still isn't working for  some reason). I installed pasystray, which works, but kicks up errors and isn't as useful to me as volti:

$ pasystray

** (pasystray:29866): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files

** (pasystray:29866): WARNING **: Error initializing Avahi: Daemon not running
** Message: volume:65536
** Message: volume:65536
** Message: volume:65536
** Message: volume:65536
** Message: volume:65536

(pasystray:29866): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set_data: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(pasystray:29866): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set_data: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(pasystray:29866): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set_data: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(pasystray:29866): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set_data: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(pasystray:29866): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set_data: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(pasystray:29866): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_set_data: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

Not sure what causes it, but the solution to get volti running is to edit the /home/username/.config/volti/config file and change

card_index = 0

to

card_index = 1

.
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scale_show_value = 0

can also be changed to

scale_show_value = 1

Last edited by devuan_dk_fan (2018-02-11 23:21:17)

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devuan_dk_fan

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Registered: 2018-01-10

Posts: 95  

Re: (SOLVED)Minimal, vanilla Devuan i3 Jessie, Aspire One 725 wifi & sound

I finally got the wifi to work. I uninstalled broadcom-sta-dkms and reran the command from the beginning post, ran the suggested commands in the Debian Wiki after the build/install went fine and then added wlan0 to the Wicd client preferences. Case closed

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cynwulf

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Registered: 2017-10-09

Posts: 234  

Re: (SOLVED)Minimal, vanilla Devuan i3 Jessie, Aspire One 725 wifi & sound

For future reference - there was a kernel upgrade (3.16.0-4-amd64 to 3.16.0-5-amd64) at the same time as your installation of the broadcom-sta / wl driver package.

You can see that dkms complains about their being no headers, for the running kernel etc.

Running a full upgrade first would have resolved this.

# apt-get install linux-image-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') broadcom-sta-dkms
[...]
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  broadcom-sta-dkms cpp-4.8 dkms gcc gcc-4.8 gcc-4.9 libasan0 libasan1 libatomic1 libcilkrts5 libgcc-4.8-dev libgcc-4.9-dev libitm1 liblsan0
  libtsan0 libubsan0 linux-compiler-gcc-4.8-x86 linux-headers-3.16.0-5-amd64 linux-headers-3.16.0-5-common linux-headers-amd64
  linux-image-3.16.0-5-amd64 linux-image-amd64 linux-kbuild-3.16 make

[...]

Loading new broadcom-sta-6.30.223.248 DKMS files...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building for 3.16.0-4-amd64 and 3.16.0-5-amd64
Module build for the currently running kernel was skipped since the
kernel source for this kernel does not seem to be installed.
Building initial module for 3.16.0-5-amd64
Done.

wl:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/3.16.0-5-amd64/updates/dkms/

depmod....

Backing up initrd.img-3.16.0-5-amd64 to /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-5-amd64.old-dkms
Making new initrd.img-3.16.0-5-amd64
(If next boot fails, revert to initrd.img-3.16.0-5-amd64.old-dkms image)
update-initramfs....

DKMS: install completed.

Last edited by cynwulf (2018-02-12 14:37:51)

devuan_dk_fan

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Registered: 2018-01-10

Posts: 95  

Re: (SOLVED)Minimal, vanilla Devuan i3 Jessie, Aspire One 725 wifi & sound

Ah. Many thanks for the info. I am a bit outside my comfort zone, but I am up for a challenge.

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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. - Groucho Marx
I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it. - Groucho Marx