[Slackbuilds-users] broadcom-sta broken link

[Ivan Pavicevic]

Thanks King! I have noticed that, but files names also had different, not
just versions. I'll try in a few minutes :-)


On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 9:47 PM, King Beowulf <kingbeowulf at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 10/02/2013 02:05 AM, Ivan Pavicevic wrote:
> > Ahoy there, It seems that Broadcom no more hosts that version of
> > the linux driver, 64bit neither 32... From SBo page:
> > http://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.0/network/broadcom-sta/
> >
> > -- If you don't care where you are, then you ain't lost
> >
>
> If you go to the home page link:
>
> http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
>
> you will see that Broadcom posted new versions as of 10-SEP-2013. You
> should just need to modify the .Slackbuild version line from
>
> VERSION=5.100.82.112
>
> to
>
> VERSION=6.30.223.141
>
> and probably comment out:
>
> # patch -p1 < $CWD/bc_wl_abiupdate.patch
>
> since I think the new version fixes that kernel compatibility issue.
> That all said, with my old work laptop that has a BCM4322 chipset, the
> b43 driver works better (you will need the firmware and fwcutter from
> SBo), YMMV.
>
> -Ed
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