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

[Thomas Spuhler]

On Thursday, December 27, 2012 05:13:11 PM Thomas Backlund wrote:
> 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 ?
> 
> --
> Thomas
See my other e-mail about the ISO w/o the wl driver.
I then booted with the no-wl LiveCD ISO 
I opened the Networkcenter and there was no wireless network showing at all (I noramlly can see 5 of 
them in my home).
In fact there was a brief splash <looking for ...>

Then came up the error window with the message
Unable to find network interface for selected device (using wl driver)

I then opened harddrake from a konsole and it was looking for packages to install. After connecting 
the ethernet cable, the packages were installed (dkms-, libs, gcc, kernel-desktop-devel and kernel-
server-devel !, etc)
I opened the Networkcenter again and the same message apeared:
Unable to find network interface for selected device (using wl driver)

Besides that the driver ins't working, the installation is a hassle using a LiveCd. A live CD should 
be something portable and easy for demo, etc.

-- 
Best regards
Thomas Spuhler
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