when wireless is active, net-wireless/broadcom-sta-5.100.82.112-r2 fills up dmesg with messages like this: ERROR @wl_cfg80211_get_station : Could not get rate (-1) ERROR @wl_cfg80211_get_station : Could not get rssi (-1) The wireless works fine, and I imagine that they are related to the disabling of code related to ndo_set_multicast_list which are necessary for compiling on newer kernels. Since the wireless works fine, I would probably consider it reasonable to just comment out the two printk's which produce these messages since they fire off pretty much constantly. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: emerge net-wireless/broadcom-sta-5.100.82.112-r2 on a newer kernel (>= 3.4). enable wireless look at dmesg Actual Results: ERROR @wl_cfg80211_get_station : Could not get rate (-1) ERROR @wl_cfg80211_get_station : Could not get rssi (-1) repeated constantly in dmesg Expected Results: a reasonable amount of log messages. Portage 2.2.0_alpha120 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.14.1-r3, 3.5.0-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.5.0-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7_CPU_M_640_@_2.80GHz-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 05:30:02 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p20 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.6.8, 2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.7-r5 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.8.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.3-r2, 4.6.3, 4.7.1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.5 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.14.1-r3 Repositories: gentoo ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -finline-functions -pipe 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Looks like a duplicate of bug 399747, but I do not have the Bguzilla permissions to mark it as such.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 399747 ***
