"Standard Fedora 19, should include the Broadcom Drivers of the Box"

[Andre Gompel]

Hello:
   Fedora 19 (F19) is very good, congratulations !

Now, I will make a comment:

It is a good thing, that finally Fedora includes the Atheros 9k in the basic kernel, I
will explain why later.

I have a notebook, of the very popular series, HP ProBooks , its a ProBook 6475B (AMD Quad
Core CPU A10).
F19 includes the graphic driver for the Radeon GPU, and it is very good !

However F19, does NOT (out of the box) include the driver for the WiFi  Broadcom chip (
BCM43228 )Fedora 19, should include the Broadcom Drivers off the Box"... and it
should, because without Wi-Fi (my only internet connection), the install as well as
updates are almost impossible !

I could manage to install, by using an external USB WiFi dongle made by TP-Link
(TL-WN821N), with the Atheros 9k series, and it works so well  "out of the box"
that  I could even do a network install, then I installed the STA Broadcom Driver: works
as a charm, but not so simple for the non technical user !


The BCM43228 is very reliable and fast, when the driver is installed !
The driver is made of loadable modules, so the kernel size would remain the same.
And the few files (including the firmware) are very small, so no real impact on size !

Several very popular HP computers, and Lenovo too are using the Broadcomm chip so the only
way for a semless and easy install, if you only have a WiFi connection is to have this
driver. Furthermore, Broadcomm now have open source drivers( this is recent).

Thanks for the attention.

Andre Gompel

[Ankur Sinha]

On Wed, 2013-07-03 at 12:28 -0700, Andre Gompel wrote:
>  Hello: 
Hi Andre,

>     Fedora 19 (F19) is very good, congratulations !
>  
>  Now, I will make a comment: 
>  It is a good thing, that finally Fedora includes the Atheros 9k in
> the
>  basic kernel, I will explain why later. 
>  I have a notebook, of the very popular series, HP ProBooks , its a
>  ProBook 6475B (AMD Quad Core CPU A10).
>  F19 includes the graphic driver for the Radeon GPU, and it is very
>  good ! 
>  However F19, does NOT (out of the box) include the driver for the
> WiFi
>  Broadcom chip ( BCM43228 )Fedora 19, should include the Broadcom
>  Drivers off the Box"... and it should, because without Wi-Fi (my only
>  internet connection), the install as well as updates are almost
>  impossible !
>   
<snip>

>  Several very popular HP computers, and Lenovo too are using the
>  Broadcomm chip so the only way for a semless and easy install, if you
>  only have a WiFi connection is to have this driver. Furthermore,
>  Broadcomm now have open source drivers( this is recent). 
Broadcomm making their drivers open source is not enough. They need to
provide their drivers in the main kernel tree. I'm a broadcomm user
myself and have been helping broadcomm kernel developers debug and
improve their drivers. When the driver for your chipset is available in
the kernel upstream, it will work out of the box.

Thank you for your comment. 

Please note that this isn't the correct list for this discussion and I
request you to please post to the correct list in the future (users
mailing list would be the way to go for this post)

-- 
Thanks again,
Warm regards,
Ankur (FranciscoD)

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha

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[Andre Gompel]

Ankur:
  Thanks.
  I am a software engineer, doing low level work.
  I do not have lots of experience with Linux Drivers but tell me if I can help.
  I may contact Broadcom, for what you suggest.   
  By the way, I am in Berkeley (US/California), where are you?
Andre

________________________________
 From: Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur(a)gmail.com&gt;
To: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org 
Sent: Wednesday, 3 July 2013, 20:34
Subject: Re: "Standard Fedora 19, should include the Broadcom Drivers of the
Box"
 

On Wed, 2013-07-03 at 12:28 -0700, Andre Gompel wrote:
>  Hello: 
Hi Andre,

>     Fedora 19 (F19) is very good, congratulations !
>  
>  Now, I will make a comment: 
>  It is a good thing, that finally Fedora includes the Atheros 9k in
> the
>  basic kernel, I will explain why later. 
>  I have a notebook, of the very popular series, HP ProBooks , its a
>  ProBook 6475B (AMD Quad Core CPU A10).
>  F19 includes the graphic driver for the Radeon GPU, and it is very
>  good ! 
>  However F19, does NOT (out of the box) include the driver for the
> WiFi
>  Broadcom chip ( BCM43228 )Fedora 19, should include the Broadcom
>  Drivers off the Box"... and it should, because without Wi-Fi (my only
>  internet connection), the install as well as updates are almost
>  impossible !
>   
<snip>

>  Several very popular HP computers, and Lenovo too are using the
>  Broadcomm chip so the only way for a semless and easy install, if you
>  only have a WiFi connection is to have this driver. Furthermore,
>  Broadcomm now have open source drivers( this is recent). 
Broadcomm making their drivers open source is not enough. They need to
provide their drivers in the main kernel tree. I'm a broadcomm user
myself and have been helping broadcomm kernel developers debug and
improve their drivers. When the driver for your chipset is available in
the kernel upstream, it will work out of the box.

Thank you for your comment. 

Please note that this isn't the correct list for this discussion and I
request you to please post to the correct list in the future (users
mailing list would be the way to go for this post)

-- 
Thanks again,
Warm regards,
Ankur (FranciscoD)

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha

Join Fedora! Come talk to us!
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[Andre Gompel]

Ankur:
  I just looked at your Wiki page: so I know you are in India (Or perhaps Sidney
Australia).
  I also got your comment about mailing lists, but this part is not so clear, anywhere
that I do know.
Andre

________________________________
 From: Andre Gompel <agompel(a)yahoo.com&gt;
To: &quot;ankursinha(a)fedoraproject.org&quot; <ankursinha(a)fedoraproject.org>; Fedora
Weekly News team discussion <news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org&gt; 
Sent: Thursday, 4 July 2013, 10:59
Subject: Re: "Standard Fedora 19, should include the Broadcom Drivers of
the	Box"
 


Ankur:
  Thanks.
  I am a software engineer, doing low level work. 
  I do not have lots of experience with Linux Drivers but tell me if I can help.
  I may contact Broadcom, for what you suggest.   
  By the way, I am in Berkeley (US/California), where are you?
Andre

________________________________
 From: Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur(a)gmail.com&gt;
To: news(a)lists.fedoraproject.org 
Sent: Wednesday, 3 July 2013, 20:34
Subject: Re: "Standard Fedora 19, should include the Broadcom Drivers of the
Box"
 

On Wed, 2013-07-03 at 12:28 -0700, Andre Gompel wrote:
>  Hello: 
Hi Andre,

>     Fedora 19 (F19) is very good, congratulations !
>  
>  Now, I will make a comment: 
>  It is a good thing, that finally Fedora includes the Atheros 9k in
> the
>  basic kernel, I will explain why later. 
>  I have a notebook, of the very popular series, HP ProBooks , its a
>  ProBook 6475B (AMD Quad Core CPU A10).
>  F19 includes the graphic driver for the Radeon GPU, and it is very
>  good ! 
>  However F19, does NOT (out of the box) include the driver for the
> WiFi
>  Broadcom chip ( BCM43228 )Fedora 19, should include the Broadcom
>  Drivers off the Box"... and it should, because without Wi-Fi (my only
>  internet connection), the install as well as updates are almost
>  impossible !
>   
<snip>

>  Several very popular HP computers, and Lenovo too are using the
>  Broadcomm chip so the only way for a semless and easy install, if you
>  only have a WiFi connection is to have this driver. Furthermore,
>  Broadcomm now have open source drivers( this is recent). 
Broadcomm making their drivers open source is not enough. They need to
provide their drivers in the main kernel tree. I'm a broadcomm user
myself and have been helping broadcomm kernel developers debug and
improve their drivers. When the driver for your chipset is available in
the kernel upstream, it will work out of the box.

Thank you for your comment. 

Please note that this isn't the correct list for this discussion and I
request you to please post to the correct list in the future (users
mailing list would be the way to go for this post)

-- 
Thanks again,
Warm regards,
Ankur
 (FranciscoD)

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha

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