Hi Tomáš, On Wed, 22 Feb 2017, 10:34:25 +0100, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: > 2017-02-22 10:29 GMT+01:00 Manfred Hollstein <manfre...@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? > HTH > > Tom TIA, cheers. l8er manfred
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