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

Sander Lepik sander.lepik at eesti.ee
Thu Dec 27 09:20:23 CET 2012


27.12.2012 00:54, Thomas Backlund kirjutas:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm thinking of dropping the nonfree prebuilt broadcom-wl drivers
> (and thereby their "support" from live images)
>
> This means also dropping them from ldetect-lst, and if we keep/add
> some there, it must be for specific reason and on sub-vendor/device
> level to not force the wl stuff on everyone...
>
> [...]
>
> To do this I suggest we should do this asap, and keep it for
> atleast mga3-beta2 isos, so we can check how it works out...
>
> Comments ?
>
I'm OK with that as currently i can't use wifi on LiveDVDs. wl driver is causing more mess
than it's helping to resolve.

--
Sander



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