[Mageia-dev] autoselecting a driver for some hardware

Claire Robinson eeeemail at gmail.com
Mon Mar 19 11:06:19 CET 2012


On 19/03/12 09:14, zezinho wrote:
> hi,
>
> can anyone hint me where to look into to link some hardware pci id with
> some driver?
>
> I am thinking on Broadcom hardware that is unlucky enough to have 3
> drivers which only works with some hardware :
>
> - b43 (open source with unredistributable firmware)
> - brcm80211 (open source with firmware included in kernel-firmware-nonfree)
> - wl (proprietary closed source)
>
> As I have 2 different cards, and seeing several bug reports I think I
> could sort all this if I know where to commit it.

Some info on arch wiki, does this help?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_wireless#Determine_which_driver_you_need.2Fcan_use


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