Hi, Muri Nicanor wrote (21 Jan 2015 18:22:27 GMT) : > On 01/20/2015 10:20 PM, intrigeri wrote: >> Oh, [censored#/&$!]... > everything is fine! ;) it was just my stupidity
>> I didn't expect to see any regression for >> current hardware, now that live-config + broadcom-sta have this fancy >> auto-detection mechanism :( >> >> Best case, the PCI ID of your hardware should be removed from >> /usr/share/live/config/broadcom-sta/*.ids. >> >> Worst case, there's also been hardware released with the very same PCI >> ID, but that works better with the broadcom-sta (wl) module than with >> the brcmsmac one. >> >> Muri, do you want to look into this closer, and possibly report a bug >> against the broadcom-sta-$something_that_ships_this_.id_file Debian >> package, or should I? > i just wanted to do that. when i started the macbook debian > installation, the wl module suddenly worked. maybe i should have > rebooted once before i wrote the last mail. so the module apparently > needs a reboot after being built. so i tried again: i purged > broadcom-sta-dkms, rebooted, used brcmsmac; installed broadcom-sta-dkms, > rmmoded brcmsmac (and some others), loaded wl -> didn't work. after a > reboot it worked... > so, now the macchanger: > if i try to do sudo macchanger -r wlan0, i get the 'Too many open files > in system' warning from macchanger and syslog says: > wl0: wl_set_mac_address: error setting MAC addr override > the mac address changes, but no traffic goes through and if i try to > reconnect via network manager, i get the wl_roaming_status stacktrace I went through this thread again, and my current understanding is: * the broadcom-sta module (wl) works for you without MAC spoofing, but seems to be totally buggy with MAC spoofing; * the brcmsmac module works fine for you -- with MAC spoofing? If brcmsmac works reliably with MAC spoofing, then your device should be removed from the list of PCI IDs that the wl module claims to support better than brcmsmac, right? Cheers, -- intrigeri _______________________________________________ tails-support mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-support To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
