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

Fri Dec 28 00:17:40 CET 2012

On Thursday, December 27, 2012 01:24:16 PM Thomas Backlund wrote:
+> Kamil Rytarowski skrev 27.12.2012 22:14:
+> > On 27.12.2012 13:58, Thomas Backlund wrote:
+> >> Kamil Rytarowski skrev 27.12.2012 03:33:
+> >>> My hardware is working only with the propriatary drivers and dkms
+> >>> packages are sufficient.
+> >> 
+> >> Are you sure this is still the case ?
+> >> 
+> >> what is the output of "lspcidrake -v" for that device ?
+> > 
+> > wl              : Broadcom Corporation|BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless
+> > LAN Controller [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:14e4 device:432b subv:1028
+> > subd:000d) (rev: 01)
+> > 
+> > If there is a chance that it may work with the current open drivers,
+> > then I can give it a try this weekend.
+> 
+> Hm,
+> Initial BCM4322 support got added upstream in 2.6.38, so yes please try
+> the "no-wl" test livecd to see if it has improved.
+> 
+> 
+> --
+> Thomas
+This is a nice link:
+http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43
+
+-- 
+Best regards
+Thomas Spuhler
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