From: "Dustin C. Hatch" <admiralnemo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] broadcom-sta and the 3.6.x kernel
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:30:04 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50BE16FC.4080901@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50BDE869.1080101@binarywings.net>
On 12/4/2012 06:11, Florian Philipp wrote:
>
> 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).
>
Yes, I initially tried the b43 driver, which worked, but consistently
dropped about 5-15% of packets, making it mostly unusable. I also tried
bcrmsmac and bcrmfmac, and neither of them supported my card (432b).
Unfortunately, I can't get a different card, either, because I my
notebook has a "whitelist" of supported devices in the BIOS, and it
won't even boot with a mini-pci-e card installed that isn't in that
list. Thanks, HP :(
Regards,
--
♫Dustin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-04 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-04 1:22 [gentoo-user] broadcom-sta and the 3.6.x kernel Allan Gottlieb
2012-12-04 8:13 ` Dustin C. Hatch
2012-12-04 12:11 ` Florian Philipp
2012-12-04 15:30 ` Dustin C. Hatch [this message]
2012-12-07 12:51 ` Mick
2012-12-11 9:04 ` [gentoo-user] " Nuno J. Silva
2012-12-11 9:18 ` Mick
2012-12-11 18:57 ` Dustin C. Hatch
2012-12-05 0:47 ` [gentoo-user] " 2sb7vwu
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