On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 03:23 +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: 2.6.39~rc5-1~experimental.1 > Severity: normal > Tags: experimental > > The driver for my other laptops broadcom BCM4313 seems to be missing. > > Comparing the config files: > /boot/config-2.6.38-2-686:CONFIG_BRCM80211=m > /boot/config-2.6.38-2-686:CONFIG_BRCM80211_PCI=y > /boot/config-2.6.38-2-686:# CONFIG_BRCMFMAC is not set > /boot/config-2.6.39-rc5-686-pae:CONFIG_BRCM80211=m > /boot/config-2.6.39-rc5-686-pae:# CONFIG_BRCMSMAC is not set > /boot/config-2.6.39-rc5-686-pae:# CONFIG_BRCMFMAC is not set > /boot/config-2.6.39-rc5-686-pae:# CONFIG_BRCMDBG is not set > > I wonder if maybe BRCMSMAC is the appropriate option now. A short search > revealed a patch to remove CONFIG_BRCM80211 "since [...] renamed to brcmsmac". > Could you enable that option for the next upload? Thanks. Yes, thankyou. > (Not sure what the "full-mac cards" are that the BRCMFMAC driver is for. There > I saw something that you could not have SMAC und FMAC as module at the same > time (well, actually a patch that removes such a comment), but nothing yet of > the benefits of one over the other. [...] It's for different hardware. You can't choose between the drivers. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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