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Add patches for later kernel versions Add patch for 6.15 kernel Commit last fix
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I kinda wish there was a better way to do some of these enabling steps. I've simplified this as much as possible. If anyone has any thoughts let me know - or just point me to some documentation I can update to add these steps. I think the |
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This was confirmed as not working by multiple Mac users. I don't see what's changed... |
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If there's a better way to handle this configuration quirk let me know. I'm fine if the eventual answer is "will not merge" (the driver is ancient anyway), I just want to get some documentation out there for how to make this work. |
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Ok... there was ANOTHER |
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The dbus change cannot be added as is. It will affect all users. Also we don't use systemd. |
DBus change is not needed anymore with the |
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The previous dbus change referenced systemd. |
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This PR adds support for the broadcom-wl driver. By default it is disabled but can be enabled by modfiying the driver blacklist files like so:
Additionally to get things to work a patch to
wpa_supplicantis needed. The patch in this PR is taken from the following wpa_supplicant development thread:https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/hostap/2025-May/043475.html
This should fix an issue with the broadcom wl driver where AP scans don't work. This is a combination of two separate patches that are already in the upstream git repo, but not in the released version.
This PR resolves the following issue:
#7894
And replaces the older PR here:
#7735
To revert these changes just reverse the above renames
Tested on a Macmini7,1