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

Thu Dec 27 15:26:02 CET 2012

On Thursday, December 27, 2012 07:21:40 AM Thomas Backlund wrote:
+> Wolfgang Bornath skrev 27.12.2012 16:04:
+> > 2012/12/27 Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org>:
+> >> 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
+> 
+> Thanks. that shows the subvendor/device ids.
+> The 4312 ones are problematic iirc...
+> 
+> Now for some tests...
+> 
+> 1. uninstall any *broadcom-wl* package on the system.
+> 2. disable nonfree medias (to prevent drakx access to them)
+> 3. reboot.
+> 4. try to reconfigure your wireless connection and see if it works.
+> 
+> 5. if it does not work, enable nonfree media again
+> 6. install dkms-broadcom-wl
+> 7. reboot
+> 8. try to reconfigure wireless again and see if it works now.
+> 
+> --
+> Thomas
+
+OK, I'll do that tonight on an older laptop that has the 4311 device
+
+-- 
+Best regards
+Thomas Spuhler
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