[Mageia-dev] Packages not updating?

Tue Oct 30 13:11:47 CET 2012

On 30/10/2012 11:16, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
+> Hi Anne, *,
+> 
+> On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Anne Wilson
+> <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
+>> 
+>> Earlier today I did a big update on Cauldron.  Since then my
+>> wireless connection has not been working.  I started to gather
+>> information to report this, but when I asked MCC for hardware
+>> detection I was immediately told that broadcom-wl-kernel and two
+>> other packages (one was broadcom-wl-kernel-netbook, I think) needed
+>> installing.
+> 
+> Yeah, that beast is stubborn unfortunately. That driver is unusable 
+> with the additional channels, and I also struggled to convince 
+> MCC/Network manager to use the free driver (that unfortunately 
+> requires firmware to be loaded and thus manual installation of the 
+> firmware-cutter package and manual extraction of the firmware before 
+> it can be made usable).
+> 
+>> Have I missed doing something, or should they have been picked up
+>> in the usual way?
+> 
+> Have you been using that driver before?
+> 
+Yes, it has been working fine in the past, and I'm fairly sure that
+(broadcom-wl-kernel) is what it was using.  It's worth noting that the
+netbook kernel was only added to my config a few days ago, so that I
+could test it (not done so yet), so it's possible that the problem is there.
+
+I didn't have the error box on screen when I wrote the original, but I
+can see it now.  It says -
+
+System policy prevents modification of network settings for all users
+An application is attempting to perform an action that requires
+privileges.  Authentication is required to perform this action/
+
+There is then a password entry box, but neither root password or user
+password makes any difference.  As Maurice reported, it finds the SSID,
+but fails to connect, no matter what I do.
+
+Anne
+