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   <H1>[Mageia-dev] RFC: dropping prebuilt broadcom-wl drivers</H1>
    <B>Sander Lepik</B> 
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    <I>Fri Dec 28 21:34:44 CET 2012</I>
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<PRE>27.12.2012 18:28, Thomas Backlund kirjutas:
&gt;<i> Thomas Backlund skrev 27.12.2012 17:01:
</I>&gt;<i> [...]
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</I>&gt;<i> Theese are exactly the same as the official beta1 isos,
</I>&gt;<i> with only exceptions are the broadcom-wl tests:
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</I>&gt;<i> * No broadcom-wl drivers on iso, and no &quot;wl&quot; entries in ldetect-lst:
</I>&gt;<i> <A HREF="http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/people/tmb/mga3-beta1-wl-test/Mageia-3-beta1-no-wl-LiveCD-KDE4-en-i586-CD/">http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/people/tmb/mga3-beta1-wl-test/Mageia-3-beta1-no-wl-LiveCD-KDE4-en-i586-CD/</A>
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</I>So i used this iso to test.

At first i saw such device reported for wifi connections:

Wireless (Wi-Fi)
Broadcom Corporation BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n

Clicking on it prompted to install wl stuff. So no luck at first.

Then i checked dmesg and saw that b43 was loaded.

I ran rmmod on these modules: b43, brcmsmac, bcma

After that i blacklisted b43 in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-mga.conf and reloaded bcma.

Now i saw new interface wlan0 and i was able to configure it. But connection test failed.

I think it failed because wpa_supplicant was in bad mood. As i couldn't restart LiveCD i
just ran &quot;service network restart&quot;. After that my laptop connected automatically and network
was usable.

So if wrong modules are blocked and correct ones loaded then everything seems to work.

Output of lspcidrake -v:
wl : Broadcom Corporation|BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:14e4 device:4353
subv:1028 subd:000e) (rev: 01)

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Sander

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