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

Fri Dec 28 03:34:31 CET 2012

On Thursday, December 27, 2012 05:13:11 PM Thomas Backlund wrote:
+> 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
+See my other e-mail about the ISO w/o the wl driver.
+I then booted with the no-wl LiveCD ISO 
+I opened the Networkcenter and there was no wireless network showing at all (I noramlly can see 5 of 
+them in my home).
+In fact there was a brief splash <looking for ...>
+
+Then came up the error window with the message
+Unable to find network interface for selected device (using wl driver)
+
+I then opened harddrake from a konsole and it was looking for packages to install. After connecting 
+the ethernet cable, the packages were installed (dkms-, libs, gcc, kernel-desktop-devel and kernel-
+server-devel !, etc)
+I opened the Networkcenter again and the same message apeared:
+Unable to find network interface for selected device (using wl driver)
+
+Besides that the driver ins't working, the installation is a hassle using a LiveCd. A live CD should 
+be something portable and easy for demo, etc.
+
+-- 
+Best regards
+Thomas Spuhler
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