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

Fri Dec 28 21:34:44 CET 2012

27.12.2012 18:28, Thomas Backlund kirjutas:
+> Thomas Backlund skrev 27.12.2012 17:01:
+> [...]
+>
+> 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-beta1-wl-test/Mageia-3-beta1-no-wl-LiveCD-KDE4-en-i586-CD/
+>
+So i used this iso to test.
+
+At first i saw such device reported for wifi connections:
+
+Wireless (Wi-Fi)
+Broadcom Corporation BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n
+
+Clicking on it prompted to install wl stuff. So no luck at first.
+
+Then i checked dmesg and saw that b43 was loaded.
+
+I ran rmmod on these modules: b43, brcmsmac, bcma
+
+After that i blacklisted b43 in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-mga.conf and reloaded bcma.
+
+Now i saw new interface wlan0 and i was able to configure it. But connection test failed.
+
+I think it failed because wpa_supplicant was in bad mood. As i couldn't restart LiveCD i
+just ran "service network restart". After that my laptop connected automatically and network
+was usable.
+
+So if wrong modules are blocked and correct ones loaded then everything seems to work.
+
+Output of lspcidrake -v:
+wl : Broadcom Corporation|BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:14e4 device:4353
+subv:1028 subd:000e) (rev: 01)
+
+--
+Sander
+
+