Re: Switched to RTL card - how to remove Broadcom cruft - Re: How to find out which wifi card

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On 7/30/19 9:07 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> I got tired of the Broadcom card.  It just acts strangely.  It takes a long time to get
> the wifi connection.  A new connection fails the first time (a real pain recently in my
> travels) and the connection tends to bounce.
>
> So I pulled the RTL 802.11/a/b/n card for that hanger queen and am up and running on it.
>
> How do I remove the Broadcom cruft.  I suspect it is more than just:
>
> dnf erase broadcom-wl
>
> and remove the
>
> /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/99-my.conf
>
> Can I 'un-taint' the kernel I am currently running or do I have to wait
> for the next kernel update and not have the broadcom stuff installed? 

dnf erase broadcom-wl will do it as it will also remove all the kmod-wl* packages which
removes the modules for the kernels which are installed.   I will also remove packages
which were needed to build those modules if they are no longer needed by other packages.


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