Bug#664767: wifi bugs (Re: "compatibility with alx ?")
El 2013-03-17 a las 10:56 -0700, Jonathan Nieder escribió:
> Camaleón wrote:
> > El 2013-03-17 a las 14:58 +0000, Ben Hutchings escribió:
>
> >> Talk to the compat-drivers developers.
> >
> > To be sincere, I don't think that's a user's role.
> >
> > I don't know what's going on with these drivers but if they are not
> > supported by Debian at all it would be better for all of us (plain
> > users and developers) to simply say it so to avoid wasting time and
> > resources.
>
> In generally at least I prefer to work with mainline (3.9-rcn) and
> stable (3.2.y) kernels instead of the out-of-tree driver backports.
I was surprised this new "compat-driver" included brcmsmac drivers and
wanted to give it a try as compiling a complete new kernel is a very
consuming task.
> Sorry I dropped the ball after a while on the brcmsmac quest
> (bug#664767).
No, sir, I only can thank you for all your efforts about this. I was
also a bit tired because I get no success (last kernel I compiled from
upstream sources was 3.8.something and it failed the same way).
> I believe Arend made a candidate bugfix (cc-ing you and me to notify
> us) that was merged in 3.8-rc7. Have you tried 3.8.2 from experimental?
I will try, Jonathan, and keep bug #664767 updated accordingly.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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