Bug 11258

Summary:	Broadcom wl driver is out of date
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Philippe Leblanc <philippel>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Thomas Backlund <tmb>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	tmb
Version:	3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	kmod-broadcom-wl-5.100.82.112-83.mga3.nonfree.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Philippe Leblanc 2013-09-18 19:21:30 CEST

Description of problem:
I just noticed that the broadcom wl driver is quite outdated. Looks like Mageia 3 is using version 5.100.82.112 which hasn't been updated since Mageia 1. Since I'm not a packager, I'm not sure if there are technical or legal difficulties in packaging newer versions of this driver, but I just wanted to point out a new version of the driver was released last week at version 6.30.223.141. This might fix some bugs, improve performance and add support for newer devices.

Here's the URL to retrieve the new driver: http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Thomas Backlund 2013-09-19 22:09:47 CEST

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED
CC: (none) => tmb
Assignee: bugsquad => tmb

Comment 1 Thomas Backlund 2013-10-05 23:43:48 CEST

There is now a broadcom-wl-6.30.223.141-1 available in nonfree updates_testing

Comment 2 Thomas Backlund 2014-04-24 15:49:43 CEST

Fixed as of 2013-12-17:
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0371.html

Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED