[Bug 1998] New: Review Request: broadcom-wl - Common files for Broadcom 802.11 STA driver

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http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1998

           Summary: Review Request: broadcom-wl - Common files for Broadcom
                    802.11 STA driver
           Product: Package Reviews
           Version: Current
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: GNU/Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5
         Component: Review Request
        AssignedTo: rpmfusion-package-review at rpmfusion.org
        ReportedBy: nicolas.vieville at univ-valenciennes.fr
                CC: rpmfusion-package-review at rpmfusion.org
        Depends on: 1907
   Estimated Hours: 0.0


SPEC: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25699833/rpmfusion/broadcom-wl/broadcom-wl.spec
SRPMS:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/25699833/rpmfusion/broadcom-wl/broadcom-wl-5.100.82.38-1.fc15.src.rpm

Description: This package contains the license, README.txt and configuration 
files for the Broadcom 802.11 Linux STA Driver for WiFi, a Linux 
device driver for use with Broadcom's BCM4311-, BCM4312-, BCM4313-, 
BCM4321-, BCM4322-, BCM43224-, and BCM43225-, BCM43227- and 
BCM43228-based hardware.

$ rpmlint rpmbuild/SPECS/broadcom-wl.spec 
0 packages and 1 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings.

$ rpmlint rpmbuild/SRPMS/broadcom-wl-5.100.82.38-1.fc15.src.rpm 
1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings.

This package is an upgrade from the actual broadcom-wl-5.60.48.36-1.fc13.src
originally provided in FC-15 to the 5.100.82.38 version. 
This version is not the very last one (ie 5.100.82.111) because there seems to
have some difficulties with it.
Even if the 5.100.82.111 package build correctly, kernel panic happened when I
tried it on FC-15-x86_64 and according to this thread
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19514 others distributions have the
same problems. Broadcom needs probably to fix this last version.

So, I preferred to keep the 5.100.82.38 version as this one is working for me
from march 2011 and FC-14 to FC-15 today.

The spec file is largely inspired by the rpmfusion broadcom-wl for FC-14 one. 

Since Broadcom doesn't provide anymore the original sources files on its site,
I had to upload the copy I had on a DropBox share and provide direct links in
the spec file. I don't know if this is correct.

This review request comes after this bug report:

https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1907

I'm a newcomer in such things and not very familiar with packaging, but I'm
volunteer for this package.

Same request made for the wl-kmod package.


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