Messages in this thread | | | From | Chester <> | Date | Tue, 3 Apr 2012 00:05:14 -0500 | Subject | Re: brcmsmac driver is ghost in 3.3 |
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And this is when I curse at all the google results that say "blacklist bcma" ... brcmsmac DEPENDS on bcma /facepalms and goes to sleep..
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Chester > I spent the better part of my day trying to get my bcm4313 wlan card > to work with the new kernel to little success. I used to use brcmsmac > with the old 3.2 kernel, but it was somehow excluded when I did my > 'make silentoldconfig'. > > I chose b43 because I couldn't find brcmsmac anywhere in nconfig > anymore. device drivers -> network devices -> wireless lan -> ???.. > After fiddling around a while, I looked into my .config and searched > for the symbol, and sure enough, it was there! CONFIG_BRCMSMAC is not > set. > > That's strange. I get back on nconfig and do a symbol search and find > that it should be in devices drivers -> network devices -> wireless > lan. I go check a 2nd time and it's right there! Broadcom SoftMac > driver! .. I tried enabling it and saving the config. I peaked at the > .config file again, and the symbol was _gone_ .. (??) I got back on > nconfig and the option was no longer there as well.
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