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

Thu Dec 27 17:35:43 CET 2012

2012/12/27 Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org>:
+> Thomas Backlund skrev 27.12.2012 17:01:
+>
+>
+>>
+>> I wonder if I should create 2 test livecds to ease testing
+>> right now, one without broadcom-wl, and the other
+>> with broadcom-wl and in-kernel drivers blacklisted...
+>>
+>
+> And so I did :)
+>
+> Theese are exactly the same as the official beta1 isos,
+> with only exceptions are the broadcom-wl tests:
+>
+> * No broadcom-wl drivers on iso, and no "wl" entries in ldetect-lst:
+> http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/people/tmb/mga3-beta1-wl-test/Mageia-3-beta1-no-wl-LiveCD-KDE4-en-i586-CD/
+>
+>
+> * broadcom-wl drivers on iso, "wl" entries  in ldetect-lst,
+>   in-kernel drivers blacklisted:
+> http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/people/tmb/mga3-beta1-wl-test/Mageia-3-beta1-wl-LiveCD-KDE4-en-i586-CD/
+>
+>
+> And you can soon find them on any Mageia mirror in:
+>
+> people/tmb/mga3-beta1-wl-test
+
+Thx for the extra work, I had to re-install anyway, am in the middle to do so-
+
+My first attempt is without actiyated non-free which should tell something-
+
+After that I will use the usb stick with enabled non-free and checl
+again. all without cable-
+
+-- 
+wobo
+