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new wl driver for bcm431x

... was wandering, did anybody manage to install the new bcm431x wl driver module from official broadcom website?

http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

the fact is that, it indeed compiles ok in v4, but when insmod it aborts with:

wl: Unknown symbol cfg80211_inform_bss (err 0)

wl: Unknown symbol cfg80211_inform_bss_frame (err 0)

so just for test, I commented away those calls from the code, but it gets even worst, segmentation fault.

For the sole reason of testing that driver, I downloaded bloody ubuntu and tested there: it seemed all works ok.

So why I do want that driver in v4?

That driver claims to override tx power till 32dbm, monitor mode with 11n frames, stable no-disconnect managed mode, and so on... for who has this card, knows how much those improvements would be a miracle...

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Re: new wl driver for bcm431x

EDIT:

forgot to add, I have upgraded already long ago to backports 3.12, so I'm not using the default v4 wireless drivers.

Also I noticed that for ubuntu, that driver needs quite a lot of patching, because of newest cfg80211 management.

Tried those patches but error keeps coming.

So... if anybody solved that issue, would be nice, very, to report, thanks!