net-wireless/b43-fwcutter-011 seems to fix bugs and is the only version which works with 2.6.24 kernel (see bug 214705). Kernel itself is stable now and I think we should stabilize net-wireless/b43-fwcutter-011 too. If you agree, please, add archs into CC. Thank you in advance.
Definitely, marked ppc/ppc64 stable, added x86 and amd64 so they can do their stuff!
x86 stable
Works great on my amd64 box. # emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.4 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.1, glibc-2.7-r2, 2.6.25-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.25-gentoo-r6 x86_64 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology ML-30 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:15:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.25-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -msse3 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -msse3 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/Linux/gentoo" LANG="de_DE.utf8" LC_ALL="de_DE.utf8" LINGUAS="de vi en" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/voip /usr/portage/local/layman/java-overlay /usr/portage/local/layman/x11 /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 ao arts avahi berkdb bluetooth boost bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt css cups curl dbus dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread emboss encode evo fam ffmpeg flac fontconfig fortran gcj gdbm gif gmp gnokii gnutls gpm gs gstreamer gtk gzip hal iconv ieee1394 imagemagick ipv6 irda isdnlog java jikes jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kerberos lcms ldap libwww lirc lm_sensors mad matroska midi mikmod mmx mng mod mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl openmp pam pcmcia pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rdesktop readline reflection rtsp samba sdl seamonkey session sms sndfile spell spl sse sse2 ssl svg tcpd threads tiff truetype unicode usb vcd vorbis webdav wifi x264 xcomposite xinerama xml xorg xv xvid zeroconf zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" FOO2ZJS_DEVICES="hp2600n" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de vi en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
amd64 stable, thanks Chi-Thanh Christopher Nguyen for testing. all arches done, closing.