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

+ Thomas Backlund + tmb at mageia.org +
+ Thu Dec 27 14:41:51 CET 2012 +

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+ +
Wolfgang Bornath skrev 27.12.2012 15:18:
+> 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
+>
+
+
+can you provide either "lspcidrake -v" or "lspci -vnn" for that device
+
+--
+Thomas
+
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