[Slackbuilds-users] broadcom-sta broken link

[Ivan Pavicevic]

It just doesn't work with current SB script, even after changing drivers'
new file name, removing patch line, etc. :-/


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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>
>
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