Mailing List Archive: net-misc/bcm4400 going away

net-misc/bcm4400 going away

Aug 30, 2006, 8:54 AM

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Hi,

net-misc/bcm4400 is a kernel driver built as an external package through
portage. The codebase which this package use has been discontinued
upstream. The upstream replacement (which is not in Portage directly) is
simply a copy of the in-kernel b44 driver code.

For this reason we are suggesting everyone migrates to the b44 in-kernel
driver (I guess net-misc/bcm4400 doesn't really have any users anyway...).

bcm4400 will be removed in about 28 days. Bug #145525

Daniel
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Re: net-misc/bcm4400 going away [ In reply to ]

vapier at gentoo

Aug 30, 2006, 8:48 PM

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On Wednesday 30 August 2006 11:54, Daniel Drake wrote:
> For this reason we are suggesting everyone migrates to the b44 in-kernel
> driver

works great for me :)

> (I guess net-misc/bcm4400 doesn't really have any users anyway...).

i tried it, it killed my kernel everytime :(
-mike

Re: net-misc/bcm4400 going away [ In reply to ]

skoehler at upb

Jun 17, 2008, 1:10 AM

Post #3 of 3 (144 views)

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> net-misc/bcm4400 is a kernel driver built as an external package through
> portage. The codebase which this package use has been discontinued
> upstream. The upstream replacement (which is not in Portage directly) is
> simply a copy of the in-kernel b44 driver code.
>
> For this reason we are suggesting everyone migrates to the b44 in-kernel
> driver (I guess net-misc/bcm4400 doesn't really have any users anyway...).

As i said in Bugzilla already:
I had problems with the in-kernel driver some kernel-versions ago (like
2.6.15) and since then, i'm using the bcm4400 which worked much much
better concerning details like getting an address via dhcp and such things.

Since yesterday, i'm now testing/using the in-kernel driver of 2.6.17.11
and as far as i can see, it works great. So hopefully no problems come
up again.

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