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From: 2sb7vwu@gmail.com
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom-sta and the 3.6.x kernel
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 02:47:17 +0200
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> The broadcom-sta package works fine for me with several kernels up to
> 3.5.x.  But with 3.6.x it fails.  This seems to be a known problem, gentoo
> bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437898
> 
> 437898 contains some patches and various comments, but I am surprised
> that the current ebuild does not work with the current kernel since at
> least 10 october.
> 
> 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.
> thanks,
> allan

Hi!
I'm running 3.5.4 on my netbook. Had that problem after emerging 
networkmanager-0.9.6.4. Downgrading to 0.9.4.0-r6 solved it.