[packman] broadcom-wl driver vs. Linux kernel v5.10

Ilgaz Öcal Ilgaz at fastmail.fm
Tue Nov 24 18:30:25 CET 2020


On 24/11/2020 16:31, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
> Hi Ilgaz,
>
> now being the maintainer of Essentials/broadcom-wl, I have accepted my
> patch and rebuilt packages for the usual distro versions ;)
>
> When you have a chance, I'd appreciate if you can test again the _real_
> packages from PMBS Essentials and report back, if they work for you.,

I have done a zypper dup and kernel/broadcom-wl modules etc got updated. 
broadcom 43142 seems to work fine (unplugged the realtek USB dongle).

Have a nice day

Ilgaz Öcal

>
> Cheers.
>
> l8er
> manfred
>
> On Tue, 24 Nov 2020, 11:40:44 +0100, Ilgaz Öcal wrote:
>>> Hi Ilgaz,
>> On Tue, 24 Nov 2020, 11:07:00 +0100, Ilgaz Öcal wrote:
>>>> Hello
>>>>
>>>> I have a broadcom 43142 here and would be happy to test.
>>> Can you please test my package(s) on an current system, i.e. which does
>>> not run a 5.10 based kernel? Based on your results I'd then know, if my
>>> latest change works at all... :) So, anything of openSUSE Leap 15.1 or
>>> 15.2 or Tumbleweed would be sufficient. Thx.
>> I am glad to report that it works fine on 5.9.10-2.gb7c3768-default
>> (current) kernel. Actually I didn't even bother to configure that since it
>> was failing all the time especially with secure boot on. Surprisingly it
>> works all  fine even with secure boot enabled.
>>
>> Have a nice day
>>
>> Ilgaz Öcal



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