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Unfortunately, +</I>><i> > it's on distcoffee. the slowest mirror. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Read again :) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> It's on every mageia mirror (as soon as they are synced), just navigate +</I>><i> to people/tmb/mga3-beta1-wl-test +</I>><i> +</I>><i> for example kernel.org: +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/tmb/mga3-beta1-wl-test/">http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/tmb/mga3-beta1-wl-test/</A> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> -- +</I>><i> Thomas +</I> +Here we go: +I downloaded the CD w/o the wl driver and booted up the old DELL E1405 with the BCM4311 wl chip. +I opened the Networkcenter and had three interfaces showing: + +1. Ethernet + +2. Wireless (Wi-Fi) and underneath Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN + +3. Wireless (Wi-Fi) and underneath wlan0 + +in the window under 3, I got the usual local wireless networks showing up and was able to connect to +my home network + +in the window under 2, I got an empty window and two windows popping up: +Looking for required software and drivers... +and +Error +Some packages (broadcom-wl) are required but arn't available. These packages can be found in Mageia, +or in the official non-free repository +The following componenet is missing: wl +... +... + + + +-- +Best regards +Thomas Spuhler +-------------- next part -------------- +A non-text attachment was scrubbed... +Name: not available +Type: application/pgp-signature +Size: 198 bytes +Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. +URL: </pipermail/mageia-dev/attachments/20121227/d779f4f5/attachment.asc> +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="021022.html">[Mageia-dev] RFC: dropping prebuilt broadcom-wl drivers +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="021014.html">[Mageia-dev] RFC: dropping prebuilt broadcom-wl drivers +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#21001">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#21001">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#21001">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#21001">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |