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From: "Dustin C. Hatch" <admiralnemo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom-sta and the 3.6.x kernel
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 08:15:47
Message-Id: 50BDB0C5.5080800@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] broadcom-sta and the 3.6.x kernel by Allan Gottlieb
1 On 12/3/2012 19:22, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
2 > I believe several on this list use -sta and know many are running 3.6.x.
3 > What do you do? I should add that at present running 3.5.x is not a
4 > hardship for me.
5 >
6 I have broadcom-sta working on my notebook with kernel-3.6, using the
7 patches in #437898. For convenience, you can find them all in my overlay
8 (layman -a dustin).
9
10 I am actually having better luck with kernel-3.6 than I did with 3.5
11 because of several problems in the wl driver with regard to cfg80211.
12 Notably, in 3.5 with cfg80211, dmesg was filled with "cannot get rssi"
13 messages, several per minute. That's gone now and wpa_supplicant
14 correctly reports receive signal strength.
15
16 --
17 ♫Dustin

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