manual rl-16.03: document broadcom issue #12595

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··· 274 </para> 275 </listitem> 276 277 + <listitem> 278 + <para> 279 + Systems with some broadcom cards used to result into a generated config 280 + that is no longer accepted. If you get errors like 281 + <screen>error: path ‘/nix/store/*-broadcom-sta-*’ does not exist and cannot be created</screen> 282 + you should either re-run <command>nixos-generate-config</command> or manually replace 283 + <literal>"${config.boot.kernelPackages.broadcom_sta}"</literal> 284 + by 285 + <literal>config.boot.kernelPackages.broadcom_sta</literal> 286 + in your <filename>/etc/nixos/hardware-configuration.nix</filename>. 287 + More discussion is on <link xlink:href="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/12595"> 288 + the github issue</link>. 289 + </para> 290 + </listitem> 291 </itemizedlist> 292 293