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<H1>[Mageia-dev] RFC: dropping prebuilt broadcom-wl drivers</H1>
<B>Thomas Spuhler</B>
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<I>Fri Dec 28 01:36:15 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>On Thursday, December 27, 2012 04:23:25 PM Thomas Backlund wrote:
><i> Thomas Spuhler skrev 28.12.2012 01:20:
</I>><i> > On Thursday, December 27, 2012 09:28:29 AM Thomas Backlund wrote:
</I>><i> >> Thomas Backlund skrev 27.12.2012 17:01:
</I>><i> >>> I wonder if I should create 2 test livecds to ease testing
</I>><i> >>> right now, one without broadcom-wl, and the other
</I>><i> >>> with broadcom-wl and in-kernel drivers blacklisted...
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >> And so I did :)
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >> Theese are exactly the same as the official beta1 isos,
</I>><i> >> with only exceptions are the broadcom-wl tests:
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >> * No broadcom-wl drivers on iso, and no "wl" entries in ldetect-lst:
</I>><i> >> <A HREF="http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/people/tmb/mga3-b">http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/people/tmb/mga3-b</A>
</I>><i> >> eta 1-wl-test/Mageia-3-beta1-no-wl-LiveCD-KDE4-en-i586-CD/
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >> * broadcom-wl drivers on iso, "wl" entries in ldetect-lst,
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >> in-kernel drivers blacklisted:
</I>><i> >> <A HREF="http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/people/tmb/mga3-b">http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/people/tmb/mga3-b</A>
</I>><i> >> eta 1-wl-test/Mageia-3-beta1-wl-LiveCD-KDE4-en-i586-CD/
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >> And you can soon find them on any Mageia mirror in:
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >> people/tmb/mga3-beta1-wl-test
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >> Have fun...
</I>><i> >>
</I>><i> >> --
</I>><i> >> Thomas
</I>><i> >
</I>><i> > I am going to try it as soon as the ISO is downloaded. Unfortunately,
</I>><i> > it's on distcoffee. the slowest mirror.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Read again :)
</I>><i>
</I>><i> It's on every mageia mirror (as soon as they are synced), just navigate
</I>><i> to people/tmb/mga3-beta1-wl-test
</I>><i>
</I>><i> for example kernel.org:
</I>><i> <A HREF="http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/tmb/mga3-beta1-wl-test/">http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/tmb/mga3-beta1-wl-test/</A>
</I>><i>
</I>><i> --
</I>><i> Thomas
</I>
Here we go:
I downloaded the CD w/o the wl driver and booted up the old DELL E1405 with the BCM4311 wl chip.
I opened the Networkcenter and had three interfaces showing:
1. Ethernet
2. Wireless (Wi-Fi) and underneath Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
3. Wireless (Wi-Fi) and underneath wlan0
in the window under 3, I got the usual local wireless networks showing up and was able to connect to
my home network
in the window under 2, I got an empty window and two windows popping up:
Looking for required software and drivers...
and
Error
Some packages (broadcom-wl) are required but arn't available. These packages can be found in Mageia,
or in the official non-free repository
The following componenet is missing: wl
...
...
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Best regards
Thomas Spuhler
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