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

Thomas Spuhler thomas at btspuhler.com
Thu Dec 27 15:24:12 CET 2012


On Thursday, December 27, 2012 01:20:23 AM Sander Lepik wrote:
> 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

The wl driver isn't working on BCM4311, the b43 is
Bug #6111
-- 
Best regards
Thomas Spuhler


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