Feature changed by: Martin Seidler (pistazienfresser) Feature #311198, revision 8 Title: Include firmware for wireless broadcom devices (even non-oss) like Microsoft true type fonts installer openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Szymon Kowalczyk (fazerxlo) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Broadcom has released opensource drivers for some of new Wireless cards That could be nice to get those cards working out of box in opensuse 11.4 for snupported bcm/b43 devices For more info: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/hardware/447485-b... http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211 I proposing something like Microsoft true type fonts installer for this as it is non-oss Relations: - open firmware for some broadcom wifi cards (feature/id: 306619) + - Include brcm80211 driver/firmware into openSUSE 11.4 (feature/id: + 311196) Discussion: #1: Martin Seidler (pistazienfresser) (2011-02-03 12:44:24) Are you sure? My factory-tested system says: # modprobe -l brcm* kernel/drivers/staging/brcm80211/brcm80211.ko # uname -a [...] 2.6.37- desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2011-01-07 00:20:37 +0100 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux Maybe you are just missing in the factory repository the (non-oss) firmware that is already included in openSUSE 11.3? Compare: http://software.opensuse.org/search?q=brcm80211&baseproject=openSUSE%3A11.3&lang=en&exclude_filter=home% 3A&exclude_debug=true #2: Szymon Kowalczyk (fazerxlo) (2011-02-03 17:21:48) (reply to #1) sorry my fault Will this firmware be available on default opensuse 11.4 non-oss repo? #3: Martin Seidler (pistazienfresser) (2011-02-03 19:49:35) (reply to #2) Maybe the title of this feature/wish should be changed in "Include firmware for wireless broadcom devices (even non-oss)"? #4: Szymon Kowalczyk (fazerxlo) (2011-02-03 22:56:15) (reply to #3) I changed title and desctiption -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311198