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

[Thomas Backlund]

Kamil Rytarowski skrev 27.12.2012 22:14:
> On 27.12.2012 13:58, Thomas Backlund wrote:
>> Kamil Rytarowski skrev 27.12.2012 03:33:
>>> My hardware is working only with the propriatary drivers and dkms
>>> packages are sufficient.
>>
>> Are you sure this is still the case ?
>>
>> what is the output of "lspcidrake -v" for that device ?
>>
>
> wl              : Broadcom Corporation|BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless
> LAN Controller [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:14e4 device:432b subv:1028
> subd:000d) (rev: 01)
>
> If there is a chance that it may work with the current open drivers,
> then I can give it a try this weekend.

Hm,
Initial BCM4322 support got added upstream in 2.6.38, so yes please try
the "no-wl" test livecd to see if it has improved.


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Thomas