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

Thomas Spuhler thomas at btspuhler.com
Thu Dec 27 15:26:02 CET 2012


On Thursday, December 27, 2012 07:21:40 AM Thomas Backlund wrote:
> Wolfgang Bornath skrev 27.12.2012 16:04:
> > 2012/12/27 Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org>:
> >> 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
> 
> Thanks. that shows the subvendor/device ids.
> The 4312 ones are problematic iirc...
> 
> Now for some tests...
> 
> 1. uninstall any *broadcom-wl* package on the system.
> 2. disable nonfree medias (to prevent drakx access to them)
> 3. reboot.
> 4. try to reconfigure your wireless connection and see if it works.
> 
> 5. if it does not work, enable nonfree media again
> 6. install dkms-broadcom-wl
> 7. reboot
> 8. try to reconfigure wireless again and see if it works now.
> 
> --
> Thomas

OK, I'll do that tonight on an older laptop that has the 4311 device

-- 
Best regards
Thomas Spuhler
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