Bug#688823: broadcom-sta-dkms: to version = 6.20.55.19 (r300276)

2012-10-26 Thread Jasmine Hassan
Hi Cyril, Thanks for replying On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 7:38 AM, Cyril Lacoux clac...@easter-eggs.com wrote: I think you should not do that because this driver doesn't seem to be only for this chipset but an enhanced version of the broadcom-sta driver which support recent chipsets (see attached

Bug#688823: broadcom-sta-dkms: to version = 6.20.55.19 (r300276)

2012-10-25 Thread Cyril Lacoux
Le mardi 23 octobre 2012 06:34:06, Jasmine Hassan a écrit : Hi, When attempting to make an upstream tarball out of the dkms package, similar to the upstream tarball of broadcom-sta-5.100.82.112, I noticed the dkms pacakge only includes an x86_64 binary, so that cannot replace the current

Bug#688823: broadcom-sta-dkms: to version = 6.20.55.19 (r300276)

2012-10-22 Thread Jasmine Hassan
Hi, When attempting to make an upstream tarball out of the dkms package, similar to the upstream tarball of broadcom-sta-5.100.82.112, I noticed the dkms pacakge only includes an x86_64 binary, so that cannot replace the current broadcom-sta package (which has an i386 binary). So, I must

Bug#688823: broadcom-sta-dkms: to version = 6.20.55.19 (r300276)

2012-10-19 Thread Jasmine Hassan
Reposting updated link, as I'm getting emails about it. it's also mentioned at the bottom of the homepage jas.gemnetworks.com :) http://jas.gemnetworks.com/debian/pool/main/w/wireless-bcm43142-dkms/wireless-bcm43142-dkms_6.20.55.19~bdcom0602.0400.1000.0400-0somerville1_amd64.deb Sorry about the

Bug#688823: broadcom-sta-dkms: to version = 6.20.55.19 (r300276)

2012-10-19 Thread Jasmine Hassan
Changed the long dell/oneiric package version back to short version, and fixed lintian warnings about incorrect file ownership with recent dpkg versions. http://jas.gemnetworks.com/debian/pool/main/w/wireless-bcm43142-dkms_6.20.55.19_amd64.deb -- N.B.: I tried to contact the original package

Bug#688823: broadcom-sta-dkms: to version = 6.20.55.19 (r300276)

2012-10-19 Thread Arend van Spriel
On 10/19/2012 08:53 PM, Jasmine Hassan wrote: Changed the long dell/oneiric package version back to short version, and fixed lintian warnings about incorrect file ownership with recent dpkg versions. http://jas.gemnetworks.com/debian/pool/main/w/wireless-bcm43142-dkms_6.20.55.19_amd64.deb

Bug#688823: broadcom-sta-dkms: to version = 6.20.55.19 (r300276)

2012-10-19 Thread Jasmine Hassan
Sorry about that, and thanks for replying. http://jas.gemnetworks.com/debian/pool/main/w/wireless-bcm43142-dkms/wireless-bcm43142-dkms_6.20.55.19_amd64.deb On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Arend van Spriel ar...@broadcom.comwrote: On 10/19/2012 08:53 PM, Jasmine Hassan wrote: Changed the

Bug#688823: broadcom-sta-dkms: to version = 6.20.55.19 (r300276)

2012-10-01 Thread Arend van Spriel
On 09/27/2012 04:24 PM, Jasmine Hassan wrote: Update on 3.6-rc7 problems with wpasupplicant-1.0-2 and broadcom-sta 6.20.55.19 (r300276) 1. Fails to associate to AP (WPA encryption used) when wl.ko built with wext 2. Kernel bug when wl.ko built with nl/cfg80211 Commenting on issue 1 only, here.

Bug#688823: broadcom-sta-dkms: to version = 6.20.55.19 (r300276)

2012-10-01 Thread Jasmine Hassan
Resend. Sorry, forgot to reply all on the last 2 emails because wpa_supplicant 1.0 (at least on LMDE/Debian testing) always tries nl80211 first # grep -i wext /etc/wpa_supplicant/* /etc/wpa_supplicant/functions.sh:# -D driver backend ('wext' if none given) /etc/wpa_supplicant/functions.sh:

Bug#688823: broadcom-sta-dkms: to version = 6.20.55.19 (r300276)

2012-10-01 Thread Jasmine Hassan
And because, the log you're referencing, begins with: # wpa_supplicant -d -Dnl80211,wext -ieth2 -u -s -O /var/run/wpa_supplicant I obviously ran it with the same -D option used in functions.sh: nl80211,wext (in the same order). Pointless, of course, as I know that the wl.ko module loaded at the

Bug#688823: broadcom-sta-dkms: to version = 6.20.55.19 (r300276)

2012-09-27 Thread Jasmine Hassan
Update on 3.6-rc7 problems with wpasupplicant-1.0-2 and broadcom-sta 6.20.55.19 (r300276) 1. Fails to associate to AP (WPA encryption used) when wl.ko built with wext 2. Kernel bug when wl.ko built with nl/cfg80211 Apparently the wireless-bcm43142-dkms/Makefile was tripping due to missing

Bug#688823: broadcom-sta-dkms: to version = 6.20.55.19 (r300276)

2012-09-25 Thread Jasmine Hassan
Package: broadcom-sta-dkms Version: 6.20.55.19 Hello, My newish Dell Inspiron 15R 5520 shipped with ubuntu installed, and had this (apparently unreleased?) version of broadcom-sta-dkms, for the bcm43142 (Dell hybrid wifi/bluetooth adapter / 14e4:4365) # lspci -nn | tail -1 08:00.0 Network