Ebuild net-wireless/broadcom-sta-6.30.223.30-r1 is unable to build module for kernel >=3.10. There is working patch in deb package on ebuild homepage. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have kernel-3.10 2. Try to emerge broadcom-sta Actual Results: Module build fails Expected Results: Module build succeeds
(In reply to Milan Ševčík from comment #0) > Ebuild net-wireless/broadcom-sta-6.30.223.30-r1 is unable to build module > for kernel >=3.10. There is working patch in deb package on ebuild homepage. I can confirm for kernel 3.10.1 and 3.10.2 (~amd64)
(In reply to Milan Ševčík from comment #0) > Ebuild net-wireless/broadcom-sta-6.30.223.30-r1 is unable to build module > for kernel >=3.10. There is working patch in deb package on ebuild homepage. Confirmed here. 3.10.0 and 3.10.1
Same here for 3.10.3. However setting kernel preemption model to "Voluntary Kernel Preemption (Desktop)" enabled me to compile the driver. This bug is mentioned in Ubuntu forum: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/1156138 and is still present in net-wireless/broadcom-sta-6.30.223.30-r2 from init6 overlay. The Debian sources contains a patch for 3.10.0 (0009-add-support-for-linux-3.10.0.patch) but apparently it doesn't fix this issue.
Can confirm bug with 3.10.2. Fix attached (patch + ebuild) - with this patch, broadcom-sta successfully builds and works.
Created attachment 354596 [details, diff] broadcom-sta-6.30.223.30-linux-3.10.0.patch
Created attachment 354598 [details] broadcom-sta-6.30.223.30-r2.ebuild
Comment on attachment 354598 [details] broadcom-sta-6.30.223.30-r2.ebuild ebuild with patch for kernel 3.10 support
sorry for being a bit on the slow side. i'll examine it this weekend, if it works fine i'll get someone to push it.
Any news?
Module builds, gets loaded and dmesg looks okay, so far. Does anyone know, how to get the Bluetooth running? I can't seems to find info on that. WLAN seems to work as expected, at least I can connect to my local network and go online ...
@jimmij the kernel builds fine, module builds fine as well, but i've been unable to boot successfully into 3.10.x on my test-machine so far. hence actually testing the module is a little bit difficult. nevertheless, i've pushed the new ebuild to my overlay, tbc. @kent: from what i can see of init6's overlay, his version of broadcom-sta doesn't include provisions for kernel 3.9, hence is apparently older than the mainline version. but that was only a quick look i had at it.
(In reply to M. B. from comment #11) > i've pushed the new ebuild to my overlay, tbc. Calculating dependencies - * Missing digest for '/var/lib/layman/tbc/net-wireless/broadcom-sta/broadcom-sta-6.30.223.30-r2.ebuild'
thanks. updated tbc. that happens when you don't use repoman.
What the repoman is? Anyway 2 day ago I did "ebuild /var/lib/layman/tbc/net-wireless/broadcom-sta/broadcom-sta-6.30.223.30-r2.ebuild manifest" and compiled without further complications. Module wl is loading and working as for < 3.10 kernels, thus I can confirm the patch is working. Unnfortunately kernel > 3.10.2 still freezes for me with wl driver. I though it was related to brcmsmac driver and using wl would solve that issue. It is not the case. But that is another story...
My current procedure is * use kernel 3.10.latest when a wired network is available * use kernel 3.9.8 + broadcom-sta-6.30.223.30-r1 when I need wireless Is that the current status for all?
+ 23 Aug 2013; Sergey Popov <pinkbyte@gentoo.org> + -broadcom-sta-6.30.223.30.ebuild, -broadcom-sta-6.30.223.30-r1.ebuild, + +broadcom-sta-6.30.223.30-r2.ebuild, + +files/broadcom-sta-6.30.223.30-linux-3.10.0.patch: + Revision bump: add support for 3.10 kernels, wrt bug #477372. Patch submitted + by Constantine Kozlov <tempor.demonius AT gmail.com>. Drop old revisions
