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

Fri Dec 28 01:13:11 CET 2012

Thomas Spuhler skrev 28.12.2012 02:00:
+> On Thursday, December 27, 2012 04:23:25 PM Thomas Backlund wrote:
+>> Thomas Spuhler skrev 28.12.2012 01:20:
+>>> On Thursday, December 27, 2012 09:28:29 AM Thomas Backlund wrote:
+>>>> 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-b
+>>>> eta 1-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-b
+>>>> eta 1-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
+>>>>
+>>>>
+>>>> Have fun...
+>>>>
+>>>> --
+>>>> Thomas
+>>>
+>>> I am going to try it as soon as the ISO is downloaded. Unfortunately,
+>>> it's on distcoffee. the slowest mirror.
+>>
+>> Read again :)
+>>
+>> It's on every mageia mirror (as soon as they are synced), just navigate
+>> to people/tmb/mga3-beta1-wl-test
+>>
+>> for example kernel.org:
+>> http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/tmb/mga3-beta1-wl-test/
+>>
+>> --
+>> Thomas
+>
+> OK. I booted up and connected to the wireless.
+> What info would you need?
+> BTW I am on IRC as Oro Valley
+>
+
+Well, wich iso works ?
+if both works, wich one works better ?
+
+if one does not work, is there any warning/error in dmesg ?
+
+--
+Thomas
+
+