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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] RFC: dropping prebuilt broadcom-wl drivers</H1>
    <B>Thomas Spuhler</B> 
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    <I>Thu Dec 27 15:24:12 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Thursday, December 27, 2012 01:20:23 AM Sander Lepik wrote:
&gt;<i> 27.12.2012 00:54, Thomas Backlund kirjutas:
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Hi,
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; I'm thinking of dropping the nonfree prebuilt broadcom-wl drivers
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; (and thereby their &quot;support&quot; from live images)
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; This means also dropping them from ldetect-lst, and if we keep/add
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; some there, it must be for specific reason and on sub-vendor/device
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; level to not force the wl stuff on everyone...
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; [...]
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; To do this I suggest we should do this asap, and keep it for
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; atleast mga3-beta2 isos, so we can check how it works out...
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; Comments ?
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> I'm OK with that as currently i can't use wifi on LiveDVDs. wl driver is
</I>&gt;<i> causing more mess than it's helping to resolve.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> --
</I>&gt;<i> Sander
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The wl driver isn't working on BCM4311, the b43 is
Bug #6111
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Best regards
Thomas Spuhler
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