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

[Thomas Backlund]

Thomas Spuhler skrev 28.12.2012 02:00:
> 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
>

Well, wich iso works ?
if both works, wich one works better ?

if one does not work, is there any warning/error in dmesg ?

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Thomas