[packman] Broadcom Drivers

John Shand jshand2013 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 1 00:32:26 CET 2018


Hi there, just letting you know this driver works perfectly wqell on
opensuse tumbleweed with the most recent updates installed.  i have the
bcm43228 chipset.  however there is a concern that i have which i will
put below about tainting the kernel and version of the broadcom driver:

kernel: dcdbas dcdbas: Dell Systems Management Base Driver (version
5.6.0-3.2)
Dec 01 12:11:40 linux-2zhw kernel: PKCS#7 signature not signed with a
trusted key
Dec 01 12:11:40 linux-2zhw kernel: wl: loading out-of-tree module
taints kernel.
Dec 01 12:11:40 linux-2zhw kernel: wl: module license
'MIXED/Proprietary' taints kernel.
Dec 01 12:11:40 linux-2zhw kernel: Disabling lock debugging due to
kernel taint
Dec 01 12:11:40 linux-2zhw kernel: wl: module verification failed:
signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
Dec 01 12:11:40 linux-2zhw kernel: wlan0: Broadcom BCM4359 802.11
Hybrid Wireless Controller 6.30.223.271 (r587334)
Dec 01 12:11:40 linux-2zhw kernel: 
Dec 01 12:11:40 linux-2zhw kernel: iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer
Driver v1.11
Dec 01 12:11:40 linux-2zhw kernel: iTCO_wdt: Found a Panther Point TCO
device (Version=2, TCOBASE=0x0460)
Dec 01 12:11:40 linux-2zhw kernel: iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30
sec (nowayout=0)

Please advise if there is a fix that needs to be installed and if there
is any safety issues regarding tainted kernel, as i don't generally
like installing non open source drivers.

many thanks

john




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