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+ <H1>[Mageia-dev] RFC: dropping prebuilt broadcom-wl drivers</H1>
+ <B>Wolfgang Bornath</B>
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+ TITLE="[Mageia-dev] RFC: dropping prebuilt broadcom-wl drivers">molch.b at googlemail.com
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+ <I>Fri Dec 28 11:29:45 CET 2012</I>
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+<PRE>2012/12/27 Wolfgang Bornath &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">molch.b at googlemail.com</A>&gt;:
+&gt;<i> 2012/12/27 Thomas Backlund &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">tmb at mageia.org</A>&gt;:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Wolfgang Bornath skrev 27.12.2012 22:39:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> 2012/12/27 Thomas Backlund &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">tmb at mageia.org</A>&gt;:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Wolfgang Bornath skrev 27.12.2012 22:17:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> 2012/12/27 Thomas Backlund &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">tmb at mageia.org</A>&gt;:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Wolfgang Bornath skrev 27.12.2012 19:54:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Ok, so now I am at the point where I try to configure wifi without any
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> additional media than the core repository-
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> The correct wifi is found but the system says that there are
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> additiona&#246;l software and drivers needed (namely broadcom-wl) which I
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> may find in non-free or elsewhere. Just as expected.
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Did it try to configure it anyway, or did it stop there ?
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> No, it ends there- you can close the ,essage and go back where you
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> have the already used option or the option to use a windows driver
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> with ndiswrapper. Or go back and leave the cinfiguration
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Hm, ok, so I guess it would need manual configuration to test,
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> but it is easier to test the free drivers you can test with the
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> &quot;no-wl&quot; test livecd....
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Reboot.
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Now could I use the same installation to upgrade and use the same usb
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> stick, just activating the core plus non-free ? Or do I have to redo
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> the whole instatallotion?
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Just use the same install and install dkms-broadcom-wl
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Ok. so all I have to do go online with cable bound network, set media
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> including non-free, and then install dkms-broadcom-wl plus the needed
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> things. then reboot and try a new attempt at configuring .
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> yep. it might still suggest to install some of the prebuilt drivers,
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> but thats ok. the important part is the blacklist that comes with
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> dkms-broadcom-wl
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Ok, here I may have been too fast. I went online, set the media
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> including non-free and shot at 'urpmi dkms-broadcom-wl'- The system
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> installed 18 packages but at the end it gave errors:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Error! Could not locate wl.ko.xz for module broadcom-wl in the DKMS
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> tree. Yoou must run a dkms build for kernel first-
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> warning: %post(dkms-broadcom-wl-5.100.82.112-5.mga3.non-free.i586)
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> scriptlet failed, exit status 4
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Hm, do you have the -devel package matching the kernel you use installed ?
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Damn! When you are too tired and still go on simple errors are creeping up!
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> I have to call it a day will go on tomorrow, if my brain is still
+</I>&gt;<i> there where I left it. G'night.
+</I>
+Ok, new day new challenges!
+
+I booted with your KDE live with broadcom-wl. Results concerning wifi:
+
+The wifi chip was found and just 4 networks/APs (usually there are
+more than 15 metworks in the list). Mine is not on the list, filled in
+the infos including password, started but failed. Rebooted, same. Only
+4 of the usually more than 15 networks of my block, but not mine nore
+any other of the usually busy networks are listed. My wifi router is
+standing less than a foot away from the AP and the AP is worling, I
+have another machine running MGA3B1 running with wifi (Atheros chip)
+working nicely.
+
+--
+wobo
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