[packman] Package broadcom-wl gone?

[Tomáš Chvátal]

2017-02-22 11:57 GMT+01:00 Manfred Hollstein <manfred.h at gmx.net>:

> Hi Tomáš,
>
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2017, 10:34:25 +0100, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
> > 2017-02-22 10:29 GMT+01:00 Manfred Hollstein <manfred.h at gmx.net>:
> > > has the package been deleted? I cannot find it in its former repository
> > > Essentials.
> > >
> > Hello Manfred,
> >
> > Yes the broadcom-wl is gone from the repository.
> >
> > I had a review meeting with our kernel guys and we discovered it was not
> > updated in couple of years while its device scanning ment it was loaded
> and
> > attempted to be loaded on almost all broadcom cards errornously.
> >
> > What the labs people said is that the driver that is at the moment in
> > kernel should work more reliably and they are more than willing to
> receive
> > bugs if something is still not behaving well with the broadcom chipsets
> > that were before covered by this package.
>
> thanks for your feedback. Does that mean that I should use one of the
> kernel provided drivers (e.g. bcma) from openSUSE_Leap_42.1/2, or would
> it be necessary to run a more recent kernel like Kernel:stable?
>
> I would say the Leap 42.2 should be enough, but if it is not working
testing on Kernel:stable might be good idea.
In the first case it would simply mean the kernel team needs to backport
something and otherwise it would mean the kernel team needs to fix
something :)

Cheers

Tom