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Am 04.12.2012 09:13, schrieb Dustin C. Hatch: |
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> On 12/3/2012 19:22, Allan Gottlieb wrote: |
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>> I believe several on this list use -sta and know many are running 3.6.x. |
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>> What do you do? I should add that at present running 3.5.x is not a |
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>> hardship for me. |
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> I have broadcom-sta working on my notebook with kernel-3.6, using the |
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> patches in #437898. For convenience, you can find them all in my overlay |
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> (layman -a dustin). |
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> I am actually having better luck with kernel-3.6 than I did with 3.5 |
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> because of several problems in the wl driver with regard to cfg80211. |
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> Notably, in 3.5 with cfg80211, dmesg was filled with "cannot get rssi" |
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> messages, several per minute. That's gone now and wpa_supplicant |
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> correctly reports receive signal strength. |
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Do you actually need broadcom-sta anymore? With the recent kernel |
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updates more chips work with the in-kernel driver (brcmsmac). But the |
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config option is well hidden (you need to enable BCMA to even see it). |
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Regards, |
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Florian Philipp |
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