Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom-sta and the 3.6.x kernel

2012-12-07 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 04 Dec 2012 15:30:04 Dustin C. Hatch wrote: On 12/4/2012 06:11, Florian Philipp wrote: Do you actually need broadcom-sta anymore? With the recent kernel updates more chips work with the in-kernel driver (brcmsmac). But the config option is well hidden (you need to enable BCMA to

Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom-sta and the 3.6.x kernel

2012-12-04 Thread Dustin C. Hatch
On 12/3/2012 19:22, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I believe several on this list use -sta and know many are running 3.6.x. What do you do? I should add that at present running 3.5.x is not a hardship for me. I have broadcom-sta working on my notebook with kernel-3.6, using the patches in #437898. For

Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom-sta and the 3.6.x kernel

2012-12-04 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 04.12.2012 09:13, schrieb Dustin C. Hatch: On 12/3/2012 19:22, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I believe several on this list use -sta and know many are running 3.6.x. What do you do? I should add that at present running 3.5.x is not a hardship for me. I have broadcom-sta working on my notebook

Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom-sta and the 3.6.x kernel

2012-12-04 Thread Dustin C. Hatch
On 12/4/2012 06:11, Florian Philipp wrote: Do you actually need broadcom-sta anymore? With the recent kernel updates more chips work with the in-kernel driver (brcmsmac). But the config option is well hidden (you need to enable BCMA to even see it). Yes, I initially tried the b43 driver, which

Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom-sta and the 3.6.x kernel

2012-12-04 Thread 2sb7vwu
The broadcom-sta package works fine for me with several kernels up to 3.5.x. But with 3.6.x it fails. This seems to be a known problem, gentoo bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437898 437898 contains some patches and various comments, but I am surprised that the current ebuild

[gentoo-user] broadcom-sta and the 3.6.x kernel

2012-12-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
The broadcom-sta package works fine for me with several kernels up to 3.5.x. But with 3.6.x it fails. This seems to be a known problem, gentoo bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437898 437898 contains some patches and various comments, but I am surprised that the current ebuild does