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

[Thomas Spuhler]

On Thursday, December 27, 2012 01:24:16 PM Thomas Backlund wrote:
> Kamil Rytarowski skrev 27.12.2012 22:14:
> > On 27.12.2012 13:58, Thomas Backlund wrote:
> >> Kamil Rytarowski skrev 27.12.2012 03:33:
> >>> My hardware is working only with the propriatary drivers and dkms
> >>> packages are sufficient.
> >> 
> >> Are you sure this is still the case ?
> >> 
> >> what is the output of "lspcidrake -v" for that device ?
> > 
> > wl              : Broadcom Corporation|BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless
> > LAN Controller [NETWORK_OTHER] (vendor:14e4 device:432b subv:1028
> > subd:000d) (rev: 01)
> > 
> > If there is a chance that it may work with the current open drivers,
> > then I can give it a try this weekend.
> 
> Hm,
> Initial BCM4322 support got added upstream in 2.6.38, so yes please try
> the "no-wl" test livecd to see if it has improved.
> 
> 
> --
> Thomas
This is a nice link:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

-- 
Best regards
Thomas Spuhler
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