Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Mark Haney <mhaney@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2.6.26 and Broadcom wireless cards
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:41:06
Message-Id: 493975A7.7040803@ercbroadband.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2.6.26 and Broadcom wireless cards by Joseph Jon Booker
1 Joseph Jon Booker wrote:
2 > On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:28:03 -0500
3 > "Mark Haney" <mhaney@××××××××××××.org> wrote:
4 >
5 >> Quick question, is it still necessary to patch the 2.6.26 kernel for
6 >> broadcom wireless cards? I've not found a new broadcom driver
7 >> in .26, so I'm hanging on to .25 for now, but I'd like to use .26.
8 >>
9 >> Anyone using it with broadcom cards? How did you set it up?
10 >>
11 >
12 > What does `lspci|grep Broadcom` say? I've got 4311 (rev2) and it works
13 > fine on .25 and .26 without patches.
14 >
15 Mine's a 4306. My problem is, I don't see (in .26) the module for the
16 Broadcom cards. I know using my old config from .25 that the card isn't
17 even seen since no module is built. So, how did you get your 4311
18 working? NDISWRAPPER?
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2.6.26 and Broadcom wireless cards Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-amd64] 2.6.26 and Broadcom wireless cards Barry Walsh <bwalsh@××××××.ie>