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

[Thomas Spuhler]

On Thursday, December 27, 2012 04:23:25 PM Thomas Backlund wrote:
> Thomas Spuhler skrev 28.12.2012 01:20:
> > On Thursday, December 27, 2012 09:28:29 AM Thomas Backlund wrote:
> >> Thomas Backlund skrev 27.12.2012 17:01:
> >>> I wonder if I should create 2 test livecds to ease testing
> >>> right now, one without broadcom-wl, and the other
> >>> with broadcom-wl and in-kernel drivers blacklisted...
> >> 
> >> And so I did :)
> >> 
> >> Theese are exactly the same as the official beta1 isos,
> >> with only exceptions are the broadcom-wl tests:
> >> 
> >> * No broadcom-wl drivers on iso, and no "wl" entries in ldetect-lst:
> >> http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/people/tmb/mga3-b
> >> eta 1-wl-test/Mageia-3-beta1-no-wl-LiveCD-KDE4-en-i586-CD/
> >> 
> >> 
> >> * broadcom-wl drivers on iso, "wl" entries  in ldetect-lst,
> >> 
> >>     in-kernel drivers blacklisted:
> >> http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/people/tmb/mga3-b
> >> eta 1-wl-test/Mageia-3-beta1-wl-LiveCD-KDE4-en-i586-CD/
> >> 
> >> 
> >> And you can soon find them on any Mageia mirror in:
> >> 
> >> people/tmb/mga3-beta1-wl-test
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Have fun...
> >> 
> >> --
> >> Thomas
> > 
> > I am going to try it as soon as the ISO is downloaded. Unfortunately,
> > it's on distcoffee. the slowest mirror.
> 
> Read again :)
> 
> It's on every mageia mirror (as soon as they are synced), just navigate
> to people/tmb/mga3-beta1-wl-test
> 
> for example kernel.org:
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/tmb/mga3-beta1-wl-test/
> 
> --
> Thomas

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
...
...



-- 
Best regards
Thomas Spuhler
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