Re: broadcom-sta was removed

[Jerome BENOIT <jgmbenoit@mailsnare.net>]

Hello List,


Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Hello Johan,
>
> thanks for your quick answer.
>
> Johan Grönqvist wrote:
> > Jerome BENOIT skrev:
> > > Does any one know why broadcom-sta was remove from Testing and 
> > > Unstable ?
> >
> >  From the bug report:
> >
> > "This driver has been orphaned and does not build against kernel
> > version 2.6.31.  The hardware it supports should now be handled by the
> > in-tree b43 driver."
>
> I guess that I was looking for such a Bug Report.
> But this aasertion is partially false as a version of broadcom-sta
> that compiled against kernel 2.6.31 is privided by broadcom:
> http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
>
> > It seems that b43 is supposed to do everything that broadcom-sta did.
> > (To use b43, you may need to install b43-fwcutter from contrib, and 
> > let it download firmware for your card. I have to, at least.)
>
> I will give it a try as soon as I have time.

It seems not to work with my Broadcom BCM4322 and kernel 2.6.31 .
May be it will get better with kernel 2.6.32 .

Jerome

> > See:
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=551364
> > http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/b43-fwcutter
> >
> > Hope it helps.
>
> It helps, thanks a lot,
> Jerome
>
> > / johan

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