| Summary: | Live CD - Infinite loop of error messages when Broadcom wifi device is present | ||
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| Product: | Mageia | Reporter: | R Topics <bobhombre> |
| Component: | Release (media or process) | Assignee: | Olivier Blin <mageia> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | major | ||
| Priority: | Normal | CC: | marja11, smiling.diego |
| Version: | Cauldron | Keywords: | NEEDINFO |
| Target Milestone: | Mageia 2 | ||
| Hardware: | i586 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| Source RPM: | b43-openfwwf draklive-install | CVE: | |
| Status comment: | |||
| Bug Depends on: | 923 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 5015 | ||
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Description
R Topics
2011-06-03 21:09:21 CEST
The package containing the needed driver is currently being tested CC:
(none) =>
marja11 Bug 923 got fixed, so this bug should be solved in next Mageia-live CD Changing the version of this bug report to cauldron, and target milestone to Mageia 2, because a new mageia 1 live CD won't be released Version:
1 =>
Cauldron assigning to maintainer of draklive-install Assignee:
bugsquad =>
mageia does anyone know whether this was solved in Mga2a2?
Marja Van Waes
2012-03-18 20:08:38 CET
Blocks:
(none) =>
5015 unless you decide to add the proprietary firmware (which to my knowledge has no redistribution license) onto the live cd, there is no way to use b43 on the live cd, other than a) bundling the windows driver and scripting the b43fwcutter, or b) going for the WL module from broadcom, or c) ignoring the license and including the fw <- this works best ;-) but I still hope i'm wrong and there is a straight forward solution... unfortunately b43-openfwwf is not what we all are craving for, with just one firmware file out of about a dozen (as extracted from the CS driver) but still much better than nothing! the whole is quite nicely explained here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=239922 CC:
(none) =>
smiling.diego update: strictly speaking this bug might get closed, as the original reporter's bcm4311 is supported by b43-openfwwf with #923 resolved ;-) however all the other flavours of this family of chips will still not work... and for mageia2, we have now compiled module, so all nonfree stuff are in the livecd. http://freeshell.de/~manu67/mageia/Mageia-2-beta3-LiveCD-GNOME-Europe1-Americas-x86_64-CD.lst Let's keep opened, we can close later if nobody response. Keywords:
(none) =>
NEEDINFO it seems like broadcom-wl-kernel is in the list, so b43 is not really needed I have one of those bcm4312 so once the live cd is ready and i have my dsl back i will try it. (In reply to comment #8) > it seems like broadcom-wl-kernel is in the list, so b43 is not really needed > > I have one of those bcm4312 so once the live cd is ready and i have my dsl back > i will try it. You missed a mail, Mga2b3 live cd is ready :) http://blog.mageia.org/en/2012/04/18/last-run-for-mageia-2-test-beta-3/ i really need a to sort out my dsl... hanging here on 3g after moving, n not liking it anymore... maybe 4g? sorry my livecd doesnt boot due to #5518... will try with RC (In reply to comment #11) > sorry my livecd doesnt boot due to #5518... > > will try with RC @ R Topics Can you please try with the Mageia 2 beta 3 LiveCD (if you don't get bitten by #5518)? Tried Mageia-2-beta3-LiveCD-KDE4-Europe1-Americas-i586-CD.iso burned to a CD and booted up without problems. Checked the wireless connection using the Network Center applet. It works. I successfully connected to my wpa2 wireless router. The b43 error messages still appear in dmesg, but only once :) So again, the wlan connection now works for me using when using Mageia as a Live CD. Thanks (In reply to comment #13) > Tried Mageia-2-beta3-LiveCD-KDE4-Europe1-Americas-i586-CD.iso burned to a CD > and booted up without problems. > > Checked the wireless connection using the Network Center applet. It works. I > successfully connected to my wpa2 wireless router. > > The b43 error messages still appear in dmesg, but only once :) > > So again, the wlan connection now works for me using when using Mageia as a > Live CD. > > Thanks Thanks for the feedback :) Closing as FIXED @ Diego If later you find you still have the issue, please reopen Status:
NEW =>
RESOLVED |