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

Fri Dec 28 01:36:15 CET 2012

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
+
+Here we go:
+I downloaded the CD w/o the wl driver and booted up the old DELL E1405 with the BCM4311 wl chip.
+I opened the Networkcenter and had three interfaces showing:
+
+1. Ethernet
+
+2. Wireless (Wi-Fi) and underneath Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
+
+3. Wireless (Wi-Fi) and underneath wlan0
+
+in the window under 3, I got the usual local wireless networks showing up and was able to connect to 
+my home network
+
+in the window under 2, I got an empty window and two windows popping up:
+Looking for required software and drivers... 
+and
+Error
+Some packages (broadcom-wl) are required but arn't available. These packages can be found in Mageia, 
+or in the official non-free repository
+The following componenet is missing: wl
+...
+...
+
+
+
+-- 
+Best regards
+Thomas Spuhler
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