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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>><i> > +</I>><i> > OK. I booted up and connected to the wireless. +</I>><i> > What info would you need? +</I>><i> > BTW I am on IRC as Oro Valley +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Well, wich iso works ? +</I>><i> if both works, wich one works better ? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> if one does not work, is there any warning/error in dmesg ? +</I>><i> +</I>><i> -- +</I>><i> Thomas +</I>See my other e-mail about the ISO w/o the wl driver. +I then booted with the no-wl LiveCD ISO +I opened the Networkcenter and there was no wireless network showing at all (I noramlly can see 5 of +them in my home). +In fact there was a brief splash <looking for ...> + +Then came up the error window with the message +Unable to find network interface for selected device (using wl driver) + +I then opened harddrake from a konsole and it was looking for packages to install. After connecting +the ethernet cable, the packages were installed (dkms-, libs, gcc, kernel-desktop-devel and kernel- +server-devel !, etc) +I opened the Networkcenter again and the same message apeared: +Unable to find network interface for selected device (using wl driver) + +Besides that the driver ins't working, the installation is a hassle using a LiveCd. A live CD should +be something portable and easy for demo, etc. + +-- +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/20121227/29da5f20/attachment.asc> +</PRE> + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="020999.html">[Mageia-dev] RFC: dropping prebuilt broadcom-wl drivers +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="021007.html">[Mageia-dev] RFC: dropping prebuilt broadcom-wl drivers +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#21002">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#21002">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#21002">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#21002">[ 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> |