Re: [Tails-dev] Macbook Wifi firmware
On 05/31/2014 07:47 PM, intrigeri wrote: A resolution to this problem, for the specific case of Debian Live systems, is being worked on: https://bugs.debian.org/748679 I think that's the way to go. That indeed seems as the way to go, i'll try to gather some PCI-id's and e-mail it to bug report. Thanks. Jurre ___ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.
Re: [Tails-dev] Macbook Wifi firmware
Hi, Jurre van Bergen wrote (01 Jun 2014 10:49:54 GMT) : i'll try to gather some PCI-id's and e-mail it to bug report. Great, I'm sure Gaudenz won't mind feedback on his existing list of PCI ids, and possibly improvements to it :) (Context for Gaudenz: Jurre wanted to improve the b43/broadcom-sta situation in Tails, and I pointed him to #748679.) Cheers, -- intrigeri | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc ___ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.
[Tails-dev] Macbook Wifi firmware
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm trying to see how to get WiFi to work on several macbook's, like the pro and air. These mostly work with Broadcom non-free drivers, which is unfortunate, but c'est la vie. So I went to look in the Tails code and configuration file, which drivers were already supported, I see that the b43 driver is included which is an open-source wrapper around the binary drivers for Broadcom as far as I can see (the binaries gets fetched using b43-fwcutter from the broadcom website). So, this is an option, although not great, giving that we probably miss a package to make Thunderbolt ethernet controllers to work. So my suggestion is to add the following drivers: - - broadcom-sta-common - broadcom-sta-source - module-assistant - - broadcom-sta-dkms However, there could be conflicting modules loaded, which should be unloaded, so, this means that, we would need to check what kind of hardware it runs and only modprobe module A and not module X, Y and Z. [1] Thoughts? [1] https://wiki.debian.org/wl All the best, Jurre - -- Developer at https://www.useotrproject.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTigHvAAoJELc5KWfqgB0CVlwH/jbK4JbQwXp0Z73udg44UXaS aotrT7z/pXGUr+Muicv/7HrQCCyFLw392U5ewaUYuA10inJ6HnVeUPW78m+m3bLJ zvETc0NNxCIQe5CslCO6vQCD7BW/psf0lOTDNNcuhAi4RN1UXp7X136SQSCWJYLI J15RnmPIIBVIBRyCUbL42v8OlgW19tC/QpT9rWTsaruaf68M9xUWWH1mv403/Gqb +udGffXAtERVi3ggXX+4d66xQdLs4AWPELh35jyrAWqcVDQXFs4vNk+8ubS3A0hw Xw7jGeI2wVtDYSm1vUE4Wkbo7Ol8gwGsGwhtS7qkvfbejYuNrnjCXEc0nVSHFlU= =Lq7D -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.
Re: [Tails-dev] Macbook Wifi firmware
Hi, Jurre van Bergen wrote (31 May 2014 16:23:11 GMT) : So my suggestion is to add the following drivers: - broadcom-sta-common - broadcom-sta-source - module-assistant - broadcom-sta-dkms However, there could be conflicting modules loaded, which should be unloaded, so, this means that, we would need to check what kind of hardware it runs and only modprobe module A and not module X, Y and Z. [1] There are devices that are better supported by the free driver than by the proprietary one, and vice versa. When installed, the proprietary driver entirely masks the free one. So, installing the proprietary driver will improve things for some users (to the extent that running non-free drivers is an improvement..), and make things worse for others. A resolution to this problem, for the specific case of Debian Live systems, is being worked on: https://bugs.debian.org/748679 I think that's the way to go. Cheers, -- intrigeri | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc ___ Tails-dev mailing list Tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to tails-dev-unsubscr...@boum.org.
