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

[Wolfgang Bornath]

2012/12/27 Anssi Hannula <anssi at mageia.org>:
> 27.12.2012 00:54, Thomas Backlund kirjoitti:
>>
>> 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...
> [...]
>> Comments ?
>
> Agreed. Besides, the free driver works much better (i.e. better range)
> with my laptop.

As it looks with i586 Beta1 none of the drivers works at the moment-

lspci -v
05:00:0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g
LP-PHY (rev 01)
Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation Device 04b5
Kernel driver un use: wl

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