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

Wolfgang Bornath molch.b at googlemail.com
Thu Dec 27 17:35:43 CET 2012


2012/12/27 Thomas Backlund <tmb at mageia.org>:
> Thomas Backlund skrev 27.12.2012 17:01:
>
>
>>
>> I wonder if I should create 2 test livecds to ease testing
>> right now, one without broadcom-wl, and the other
>> with broadcom-wl and in-kernel drivers blacklisted...
>>
>
> And so I did :)
>
> Theese are exactly the same as the official beta1 isos,
> with only exceptions are the broadcom-wl tests:
>
> * No broadcom-wl drivers on iso, and no "wl" entries in ldetect-lst:
> http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/people/tmb/mga3-beta1-wl-test/Mageia-3-beta1-no-wl-LiveCD-KDE4-en-i586-CD/
>
>
> * broadcom-wl drivers on iso, "wl" entries  in ldetect-lst,
>   in-kernel drivers blacklisted:
> http://distrib-coffee.ipsl.jussieu.fr/pub/linux/Mageia/people/tmb/mga3-beta1-wl-test/Mageia-3-beta1-wl-LiveCD-KDE4-en-i586-CD/
>
>
> And you can soon find them on any Mageia mirror in:
>
> people/tmb/mga3-beta1-wl-test

Thx for the extra work, I had to re-install anyway, am in the middle to do so-

My first attempt is without actiyated non-free which should tell something-

After that I will use the usb stick with enabled non-free and checl
again. all without cable-

-- 
wobo


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