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

Thomas Spuhler thomas at btspuhler.com
Fri Dec 28 00:20:03 CET 2012


On Thursday, December 27, 2012 09:28:29 AM Thomas Backlund wrote:
> 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-beta
> 1-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-beta
> 1-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
> 
> 
> Have fun...
> 
> --
> Thomas
I am going to try it as soon as the ISO is downloaded. Unfortunately, it's on distcoffee. the slowest 
mirror.
-- 
Best regards
Thomas Spuhler
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