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

Fri Dec 28 14:37:58 CET 2012

On Thu, 27 Dec 2012 19:34:31 -0700, Thomas Spuhler wrote:
+
+> I opened the Networkcenter again and the same message apeared:
+> Unable to find network interface for selected device (using wl driver)
+
+  I've been through all that on a netbook with Broadcom BCM43225 and
+running fully-updated Mageia-3-A2.
+   I now have solid WiFi after starting to use NetworkManager, which I
+installed with the following instructions:
+
+   (1) Install  plasma-applet-networkmanager*, and add it to your
+       panel.
+          (To find its icon, Unlock Widgets, go into the 'Panel Tool
+      Box' on the right of the KDE panel, select "Add Widgets" 
+	Then type "network" in the Categories box, and float your mouse
+      cursor over each until you find Network Management. 
+      Double-click on this one and it will show up somewhere on your
+       Panel.)
+
+   (2) In /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf   change:
+             "plugins=ifcfg-rh,keyfile" to:
+             "plugins=keyfile"
+
+    (3) Click on the NM applet.  It should bring up a dialog which will
+          list your SSID. Click on it to connect (or configure)
+
+  This has withstood all s/w updates so far, which is more than I can
+say for Mageia-2 which is my bread-and-butter install on the netbook.
+   Its WiFi was at first working but a s/w update broke it, though
+over in Google-land I saw a suggestion to install:
+ 
+     kernel-firmware-nonfree*
+
+after which the WiFi was back to normal.
+  However I have not dared not do any more s/w updates to Mageia-2 in
+case the WiFi breaks again, though I guess I could always try
+NetworkManager if it did (or start using M3A2 as main system).
+
+(*Tried that on Mageia-3-A2 but did not solve the problem.)
+-- 
+/\/\aurice 
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