[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                       |   Resolution:            
 Keywords:  broadcom-wl wl-500g wl_attach  |  
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Comment (by Fatus):

 Oleg's firmware page also seems to confirm:

         "This firmware no longer supports original WL-500g/b/bv2/WL-300g
 /WL-HDD units: hardware vendor no longer support BCM4702 CPU. [...]
 Updated WiFi module to latest (4.150.10.16) (from the WL-500W 2.0.0.1
 firmware)"

 The way I understand it, the problem lies within the wl_apsta.o etc.
 binary code that seems to be dependent on the host CPU and is not just
 executed by the wireless module itself?

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Ticket URL: <https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/3392#comment:2>
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