[Bug 2116888] [NEW] firmware-b43-installer fails due to suspended domain

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[ Impact ]

The lwfinger.com domain has been suspended and downloading isn't
possible, users are seeing this in terminal trying to install

A card known to work was found.
Unknown device(s) found: PCI id
Trying to install latest firmware 6.30.163.46 .
--2025-07-14 10:11:20--  https://www.lwfinger.com/b43-firmware/broadcom-wl-6.30.
163.46.tar.bz2
Resolving www.lwfinger.com (www.lwfinger.com)... 173.254.30.178
Connecting to www.lwfinger.com (www.lwfinger.com)|173.254.30.178|:443... connect
ed.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://www.lwfinger.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi [following]
--2025-07-14 10:11:20--  https://www.lwfinger.com/cgi-sys/suspendedpage.cgi
Reusing existing connection to www.lwfinger.com:443.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: ‘broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.tar.bz2’

broadcom-wl-6.30.16     [ <=>                ]     891  --.-KB/s    in
0s

2025-07-14 10:11:21 (39.2 MB/s) - ‘broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.tar.bz2’
saved [891]

broadcom-wl-6.30.163.46.tar.bz2: FAILED
sha512sum: WARNING: 1 computed checksum did NOT match
/var/lib/dpkg/info/firmware-b43-installer.postinst: Downloaded firmware did not
match known SHA512 checksum, aborting.
dpkg: error processing package firmware-b43-installer (--configure):
 installed firmware-b43-installer package post-installation script subprocess re
turned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 firmware-b43-installer
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

[ Test Plan ]

Install package and verify the firmware is downloaded and extracted
properly. Verify that package installation succeeds.

[ Where Problems Could Occur ]

New firmware gets installed and is being loaded by the kernel on
supported HW. As with any other firmware this can result in kernel stack
traces, hangs, crashes, ...

** Affects: b43-fwcutter (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: b43-fwcutter (Ubuntu Jammy)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Juerg Haefliger (juergh)
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: b43-fwcutter (Ubuntu Noble)
     Importance: Undecided
     Assignee: Juerg Haefliger (juergh)
         Status: In Progress

** Affects: b43-fwcutter (Ubuntu Plucky)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Won't Fix

** Affects: b43-fwcutter (Ubuntu Questing)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Fix Released

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firmware-b43-installer fails due to suspended domain
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2116888
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