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

Thomas Spuhler thomas at btspuhler.com
Fri Dec 28 01:00:38 CET 2012


On Thursday, December 27, 2012 04:23:25 PM Thomas Backlund wrote:
> Thomas Spuhler skrev 28.12.2012 01:20:
> > 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-b
> >> eta 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-b
> >> eta 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.
> 
> Read again :)
> 
> It's on every mageia mirror (as soon as they are synced), just navigate
> to people/tmb/mga3-beta1-wl-test
> 
> for example kernel.org:
> http://mirrors.kernel.org/mageia/people/tmb/mga3-beta1-wl-test/
> 
> --
> Thomas

OK. I booted up and connected to the wireless.
What info would you need?
BTW I am on IRC as Oro Valley
-- 
Best regards
Thomas Spuhler
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