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From: 2sb7vwu@×××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom-sta and the 3.6.x kernel
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:49:58
Message-Id: 1578903.u7qH4fyuIC@atom
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] broadcom-sta and the 3.6.x kernel by Allan Gottlieb
1 > The broadcom-sta package works fine for me with several kernels up to
2 > 3.5.x. But with 3.6.x it fails. This seems to be a known problem, gentoo
3 > bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437898
4 >
5 > 437898 contains some patches and various comments, but I am surprised
6 > that the current ebuild does not work with the current kernel since at
7 > least 10 october.
8 >
9 > I believe several on this list use -sta and know many are running 3.6.x.
10 > What do you do? I should add that at present running 3.5.x is not a
11 > hardship for me.
12 > thanks,
13 > allan
14
15 Hi!
16 I'm running 3.5.4 on my netbook. Had that problem after emerging
17 networkmanager-0.9.6.4. Downgrading to 0.9.4.0-r6 solved it.