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

Thu Dec 27 15:04:01 CET 2012

2012/12/27 Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org>:
+> 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
+
+# lspcidrake -v |grep Broadcom
+wl   : Broadcom Corporation | BCN4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [NETWORK_OTHER]
+(vendor:14e4 device:4315 subv:14e4 subd:04b5) (rev 1)
+
+That's it
+
+-- 
+wobo
+