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

+ zezinho + lists.jjorge at free.fr +
+ Thu Dec 27 23:05:24 CET 2012 +

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Em 26-12-2012 23:54, Thomas Backlund escreveu:
+> 3. the broadcom drivers in upstream kernel.org kernels are
+>     improving and also adding support for hw that broadcom-wl
+>     is not really supporting even if pretends to do so...
+
+We should just be carefull about the fact there are 2 different open 
+source drivers:
+- brcm80211 which I could never use without crash
+- b43
+  * can run with b43-openfwwf for 4xxx hw.
+  * needs nonfree firmware files for 4xxxx hw.
+
+>
+> Then we maybe need to add some way for dkms-broadcom-wl
+> users to instruct the drakx tools that they prefer/need the
+> nonfree driver...
+>
+
+Yes, this is the most needed part, currently we just always install wl 
+driver blindly.
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