[Mageia-dev] RFC: dropping prebuilt broadcom-wl drivers

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2012/12/27 Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org>:
> Wolfgang Bornath skrev 27.12.2012 15:18:
>>
>> 2012/12/27 Anssi Hannula <anssi at mageia.org>:
>>>
>>> 27.12.2012 00:54, Thomas Backlund kirjoitti:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm thinking of dropping the nonfree prebuilt broadcom-wl drivers
>>>> (and thereby their "support" from live images)
>>>>
>>>> This means also dropping them from ldetect-lst, and if we keep/add
>>>> some there, it must be for specific reason and on sub-vendor/device
>>>> level to not force the wl stuff on everyone...
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> Comments ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Agreed. Besides, the free driver works much better (i.e. better range)
>>> with my laptop.
>>
>>
>> As it looks with i586 Beta1 none of the drivers works at the moment-
>>
>> lspci -v
>> 05:00:0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g
>> LP-PHY (rev 01)
>> Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation Device 04b5
>> Kernel driver un use: wl
>>
>
>
> can you provide either "lspcidrake -v" or "lspci -vnn" for that device

# lspcidrake -v |grep Broadcom
wl   : Broadcom Corporation | BCN4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [NETWORK_OTHER]
(vendor:14e4 device:4315 subv:14e4 subd:04b5) (rev 1)

That's it

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wobo