[Slackbuilds-users] broadcom-sta broken link

[Ivan Pavicevic]

... and I'm now just happy with b43... :)


On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 11:10 PM, Ivan Pavicevic <ivanp84 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It just doesn't work with current SB script, even after changing drivers'
> new file name, removing patch line, etc. :-/
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> On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:28 PM, Ivan Pavicevic <ivanp84 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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