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