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Details of net-wireless/broadcom-sta:

Description: Broadcom's IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n hybrid Linux device driver
Homepage:
https://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11

available versions:

releasesalphaamd64armhppaia64mipsppcppc64ppc macoss390shsparcx86USE-Flagsdependenciesebuild warnings
broadcom-sta-6.30.223.271-r9 -~----------~none
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If you are stuck using this unmaintained driver (likely in a MacBook),
you may be interested to know that a newer compatible wireless card
is supported by the in-tree brcmfmac driver. It has a model number 
BCM943602CS and is for sale on the second hand market for less than 
20 USD.
See https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Broadcom_Wireless_Adapters and
    https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Broadcom_BCM943602CS
for more information.
~!B43 ~!BCMA ~!SSB ~!X86_INTEL_LPSS
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Legend:
+ stable
~ testing
- not available
some ebuild warning depend on specific use-flags or architectures, all ebuild-warnings are shown.

Known bugs:
bug IDcomponentassigned tostatusdescriptionlast change
399747Ebuildsmaintainer-neededUNCONFIRMEDnet-wireless/broadcom-sta floods logs with "could not get rate/rssi"2013-02-03 13:03:07
407667Ebuildsmaintainer-neededUNCONFIRMEDnet-wireless/broadcom-sta-5.100.82.112-r2 has broken multicast patch2013-02-03 13:03:15
410343Ebuildsmaintainer-neededUNCONFIRMEDnet-wireless/broadcom-sta - modprobe wl: ERROR: could not insert 'wl': No such file or directory2013-02-03 13:03:43
437898Core systemmaintainer-neededUNCONFIRMEDnet-wireless/broadcom-sta-5.100.82.112-r2 with gentoo-sources-3.6.x - general protection fault in wl2013-02-03 13:08:44
438622Ebuildsmaintainer-neededUNCONFIRMEDnet-wireless/broadcom-sta-6.20.55.19 version bump2013-02-07 12:05:08


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