Advice needed Broadcom wireless packages

[Nicolas Chauvet]

2013/4/27 Nicolas Viéville <nicolas.vieville at univ-valenciennes.fr>

> Hello list,
>
Hi Nicolas,



> The context:
>
> I actually maintain the broadcom-wl and the wl-kmod packages.
>
> Since kernel 3.8.x, I had to face some impossible to solve issues (rfbz
> #2721 for example). To be more precise, the problems seem to be located
> in the binary part (blob) of the Broadcom STA wireless driver.
>
> I also posted Review Requests against RPMFusion for Broadcom wireless
> driver for bcm43142 device
> (https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2550 and
> https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2549).
>
Do these kmod will works with kernel 3.8 ?

While trying to solve rfbz #2721, I found on an Ubuntu PPA repository a
> new non-official Broadcom STA wireless driver that seems to be
>
compatible with Broadcom wireless devices.
>
I think it's problematic to have beta or non-official release into fedora
stable.
If it move the problem from a sure crash, to a random crash, it doesn't
worth the effort to have it in stable releases.

What can be done instead, is indeed to hold the kmod into updates-testing
to signal to the non-stable status of the driver.
Also I wonder it isn't best to be back to ndiswrapper in some cases ?

For now, you could state the different methods on the rpmfusion.org wiki
and to point to the link from the RPM %description field.
Also worth to state this is to explain how to rely on the firmware
extracted from the windows driver. instead of relying on the free
(this side should be handled in the fedora wiki actually).


Nicolas (kwizart)
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