Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-goblin (47 mails)

[Peter Czanik <pczanik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

2009-08-18 13:34 keltezéssel, Greg KH írta:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 04:22:06AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
>   
> > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:55:50AM +0200, Peter Czanik wrote:
> >     
> > > 2009-08-17 18:21 keltezéssel, Greg KH írta:
> > >       
> > > > Ah, it looks like M:F is being rebuilt at the moment:
> > > >    https://build.opensuse.org/project/monitor?project=Moblin%3AFactory
> > > >   
> > > >         
> > > Ooops, still rebuilding... While here, one more questions: is it
> > > possible to build the ISO file using openSUSE factory instead of 11.1?
> > > I'm asking, because my "Linux is fully supported" Dell Inspiron Mini 10v
> > > has no network at all with 11.1, even on-board Ethernet is broken, it is
> > > found, but it always reports "link down", and no wifi driver. With
> > > factory at least Ethernet works fine and there is even a wifi driver, 
> > > just not working with this particular machine (
> > > http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531784 ).
> > >       
> > Mobin uses the latest kernel version (2.6.30), so your hardware might be
> > working with that.
> >
> > Have you tried a newer kernel version to see if that helps?
> >     
> Oh wait, that's the broadcom wireless.  Ick, sorry, but Broadcom has a
> closed source kernel driver for it, nothing we can do about that in any
> of our builds.
>   
Could this driver be added to the non-oss repo? A netbook without wifi
is a pretty dumb thing... I tried to compile it myself from "sources"
available at http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php , but
I could not get it compiled with my limited C knowledge...
Bye,
CzP
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