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authorVladimír Čunát <vcunat@gmail.com>2016-03-29 16:32:50 +0200
committerVladimír Čunát <vcunat@gmail.com>2016-03-29 16:32:50 +0200
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manual rl-16.03: document broadcom issue #12595
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diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1603.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1603.xml
index 350025da7b0..47654064163 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1603.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1603.xml
@@ -274,6 +274,20 @@ services.syncthing = {
     </para>
   </listitem>
 
+  <listitem>
+    <para>
+      Systems with some broadcom cards used to result into a generated config
+      that is no longer accepted. If you get errors like
+      <screen>error: path ‘/nix/store/*-broadcom-sta-*’ does not exist and cannot be created</screen>
+      you should either re-run <command>nixos-generate-config</command> or manually replace
+      <literal>"${config.boot.kernelPackages.broadcom_sta}"</literal>
+      by
+      <literal>config.boot.kernelPackages.broadcom_sta</literal>
+      in your <filename>/etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix</filename>.
+      More discussion is on <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/12595">
+      the github issue</link>.
+    </para>
+  </listitem>
 </itemizedlist>