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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 15:26:02 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Thursday, December 27, 2012 07:21:40 AM Thomas Backlund wrote:
&gt;<i> Wolfgang Bornath skrev 27.12.2012 16:04:
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 2012/12/27 Thomas Backlund &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">tmb at mageia.org</A>&gt;:
</I>&gt;<i> &gt;&gt; can you provide either &quot;lspcidrake -v&quot; or &quot;lspci -vnn&quot; for that device
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; # lspcidrake -v |grep Broadcom
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; wl   : Broadcom Corporation | BCN4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [NETWORK_OTHER]
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; (vendor:14e4 device:4315 subv:14e4 subd:04b5) (rev 1)
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; 
</I>&gt;<i> &gt; That's it
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Thanks. that shows the subvendor/device ids.
</I>&gt;<i> The 4312 ones are problematic iirc...
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> Now for some tests...
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> 1. uninstall any *broadcom-wl* package on the system.
</I>&gt;<i> 2. disable nonfree medias (to prevent drakx access to them)
</I>&gt;<i> 3. reboot.
</I>&gt;<i> 4. try to reconfigure your wireless connection and see if it works.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> 5. if it does not work, enable nonfree media again
</I>&gt;<i> 6. install dkms-broadcom-wl
</I>&gt;<i> 7. reboot
</I>&gt;<i> 8. try to reconfigure wireless again and see if it works now.
</I>&gt;<i> 
</I>&gt;<i> --
</I>&gt;<i> Thomas
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OK, I'll do that tonight on an older laptop that has the 4311 device

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Best regards
Thomas Spuhler
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