[Bug 96] Review request: broadcom wireless kmod (wl-kmod)
http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96
--- Comment #13 from Chris Nolan <chris(a)cenolan.com> 2008-11-02 17:39:07 ---
(In reply to comment #12)
Just a reminder for the next time: All packages normally should
"just work" --
hence if you always need to do something manually to make the software that is
being packaged work (like you did) then you should make the package do it for
everyone.
Sure. I was thinking that the ndiswrapper package doesn't blacklist any modules
when installed (the user has to do it manually) but I understand now that this
is because ndiswrapper may be used for a variety of drivers so the blacklisted
modules would be different depending on the driver(s) installed using
ndiswrapper.
Then you should add a file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-for-broadcom-wl
(or
something like that; just "blacklist" is to generic and might conflict with
other packages) with that stuff in it to the package.
Note that this will blacklist b43 even for broadcom hardware that is not
supported by b43. We should in the long term work towards a better solution
that doesn't have this problem.
Ok, I've now included /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-wl-blacklist file in the
userland package.
> echo "alias wlan0 wl" >> /etc/modprobe.conf
Is this really needed? That will break if people have more then one wlan device
in their system.
I've tested it without this alias and it seems it is not needed (at least on my
setup). I will maybe include something about it in the README.txt because it
may be required for some people or for people who wish to configure their
broadcom card to use a specific interface.
You choice. Stripped down is likely easier to maintain.
Think I'll go with a new README.txt since the information we should provide
probably differs significantly from the info in the standard README.txt
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