[OpenWrt-Tickets] [OpenWrt] #3392: broadcom-wl update in r10137 breaks older hardware (such as WL-500g)

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#3392: broadcom-wl update in r10137 breaks older hardware (such as WL-500g)
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 Reporter:  Fatus     |       Owner:  developers                   
     Type:  defect    |      Status:  new                          
 Priority:  normal    |   Milestone:  Kamikaze                     
Component:  packages  |    Keywords:  broadcom-wl wl-500g wl_attach
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 Since r10137 (2008-01-06), older Broadcom hardware such as the WL-120g
 card in the Asus WL-500g is no longer supported (wl_attach fails). The
 culprit probably lies within the new v4.150.10.5 driver.

 This ticket's first purpose is to just document for the public the fact
 that WL-500g is broken since. Secondly, to get some comments as to how to
 handle the situation -- whether the hardware should be simply declared
 "unsupported" since after 7.09 or a new broadcom-wl-old package should be
 set up etc.

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Ticket URL: <https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/3392>
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