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

Thomas Backlund tmb at mageia.org
Thu Dec 27 15:21:40 CET 2012


Wolfgang Bornath skrev 27.12.2012 16:04:
> 2012/12/27 Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org>:

>> can you provide either "lspcidrake -v" or "lspci -vnn" for that device
>
> # lspcidrake -v |grep Broadcom
> wl   : Broadcom Corporation | BCN4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [NETWORK_OTHER]
> (vendor:14e4 device:4315 subv:14e4 subd:04b5) (rev 1)
>
> That's it
>

Thanks. that shows the subvendor/device ids.
The 4312 ones are problematic iirc...

Now for some tests...

1. uninstall any *broadcom-wl* package on the system.
2. disable nonfree medias (to prevent drakx access to them)
3. reboot.
4. try to reconfigure your wireless connection and see if it works.

5. if it does not work, enable nonfree media again
6. install dkms-broadcom-wl
7. reboot
8. try to reconfigure wireless again and see if it works now.

--
Thomas



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