Summary: | net-wireless/broadcom-sta-6.30.223.141 version bump | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Sergey Popov <pinkbyte> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | M. B. <tomboy64> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | enhancement | CC: | proxy-maint |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
URL: | https://github.com/init6/init_6/blob/master/net-wireless/broadcom-sta/broadcom-sta-6.30.223.141.ebuild | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Sergey Popov
2013-09-12 15:26:49 UTC
Wow. Impressive. Finally a real release from broadcom. Testing ... Preliminary tests with 3.11 worked well; please push to tree. Gonna test tomorrow with the other kernel-3 in tree. Ok, my tests concluded: compiles, loads, associates (via WPA Supplicant / WPA2), gets IP via DHCP within seconds and pings the internet successfully on: 3.0.94 3.2.48 3.4.60 3.9.11-r1 3.10.10 3.11.0 It continues to run and transfer data at good rates with me having a BCM4313 (PCI ID: 14e4:4727) on kernel 3.11. Activating Monitor mode (as described in the readme - http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README.txt) does not work. System load hogs 100% on one core and after ~10 seconds the whole machine goes out for lunch. Also the reported dumps upon losing carrier still happen (it prevented stabilization for the previous incarnation of 6.30.223). In practice this does not impede usability as the kernel recovers itself immediately and reloads the driver automatically. So: inclusion into the tree, yes, but stabilization: no. From http://www.broadcom.com/docs/linux_sta/README.txt "Upgraded to support 3.8.x." But: > grep KERNEL_VERSION /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/broadcom-sta-6.30.223.141/work/src/wl/sys/wl_cfg80211_hybrid.c | sort | uniq #elif LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 36) #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 33) #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 37) #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 38) #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 39) #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE > KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 39) #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3, 6, 0) #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3, 8, 0) #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3, 9, 0) from sources - upgraded to support 3.9.x. ;) look at the ebuild; it even supports 3.10 right now. 3.11 didn't introduce any breaking changes so it works fine there, too :p Hello folks, I just noticed that .141 is not yet committed to the tree. It runs reasonably stable with me here, though it dumps its guts on occasion and requires a `rmmod wl; modprobe wl`, just like its predecessors. Apart from that it works reasonably stable. So please, commit as testing - do not stabilize. If someone else apart from Sergey feels able to do it, the necessary files are in his ( https://github.com/init6/init_6/blob/master/net-wireless/broadcom-sta/broadcom-sta-6.30.223.141.ebuild ) or my overlay (tbc in layman). Thanks :) + 16 Oct 2013; Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org> + +broadcom-sta-6.30.223.141.ebuild, + +files/broadcom-sta-6.30.223.141-eth-to-wlan.patch, + +files/broadcom-sta-6.30.223.141-gcc.patch, + +files/broadcom-sta-6.30.223.141-license.patch, + +files/broadcom-sta-6.30.223.141-linux-recent.patch, + +files/broadcom-sta-6.30.223.141-makefile.patch: + Version bump to 6.30.223.141; proxied commit for M. B. (tomboy64), fixes bug + #484676. |