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[Mageia-dev] RFC: dropping prebuilt broadcom-wl drivers

+ Wolfgang Bornath + molch.b at googlemail.com +
+ Thu Dec 27 14:18:29 CET 2012 +

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2012/12/27 Anssi Hannula <anssi at mageia.org>:
+> 27.12.2012 00:54, Thomas Backlund kirjoitti:
+>>
+>> Hi,
+>>
+>> I'm thinking of dropping the nonfree prebuilt broadcom-wl drivers
+>> (and thereby their "support" from live images)
+>>
+>> This means also dropping them from ldetect-lst, and if we keep/add
+>> some there, it must be for specific reason and on sub-vendor/device
+>> level to not force the wl stuff on everyone...
+> [...]
+>> Comments ?
+>
+> Agreed. Besides, the free driver works much better (i.e. better range)
+> with my laptop.
+
+As it looks with i586 Beta1 none of the drivers works at the moment-
+
+lspci -v
+05:00:0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g
+LP-PHY (rev 01)
+Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation Device 04b5
+Kernel driver un use: wl
+
+-- 
+wobo
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