[Mageia-dev] Packages not updating?

[Christian Lohmaier]

Hi Anne, *,

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 8:29 PM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Earlier today I did a big update on Cauldron.  Since then my wireless
> connection has not been working.  I started to gather information to
> report this, but when I asked MCC for hardware detection I was
> immediately told that broadcom-wl-kernel and two other packages (one
> was broadcom-wl-kernel-netbook, I think) needed installing.

Yeah, that beast is stubborn unfortunately. That driver is unusable
with the additional channels, and I also struggled to convince
MCC/Network manager to use the free driver (that unfortunately
requires firmware to be loaded and thus manual installation of the
firmware-cutter package and manual extraction of the firmware before
it can be made usable).

> Have I missed doing something, or should they have been picked up in
> the usual way?

Have you been using that driver before?

ciao
Christian