[Mageia-dev] RFC: dropping prebuilt broadcom-wl drivers
zezinho
lists.jjorge at free.fr
Thu Dec 27 23:05:24 CET 2012
Em 26-12-2012 23:54, Thomas Backlund escreveu:
> 3. the broadcom drivers in upstream kernel.org kernels are
> improving and also adding support for hw that broadcom-wl
> is not really supporting even if pretends to do so...
We should just be carefull about the fact there are 2 different open
source drivers:
- brcm80211 which I could never use without crash
- b43
* can run with b43-openfwwf for 4xxx hw.
* needs nonfree firmware files for 4xxxx hw.
>
> Then we maybe need to add some way for dkms-broadcom-wl
> users to instruct the drakx tools that they prefer/need the
> nonfree driver...
>
Yes, this is the most needed part, currently we just always install wl
driver blindly.
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