Bug 1400414

Summary:	Wireless not working in newer kernel versions
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Manas <manasthakur17>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	25	CC:	cz172638, gansalmon, ichavero, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, manasthakur17, mchehab
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Description Manas 2016-12-01 07:12:20 UTC

Description of problem: Wireless doesn't work in newer versions of the Linux kernel (Fedora 25, 4.8.10-300 and 4.8.8-300).
It works in 4.8.10-200, which was installed in Fedora 24 and is still listed in the grub menu.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.8.10-300, 4.8.8-300


How reproducible: No wireless settings menu. 'modprobe wl' returns "no entry wl found", even though it is present in "extras".


This problem is repeating after every 2-3 kernel updates (in Fedora 25 and 24), right from kernel version 4.4.

akmods, akmod-wl, kmod-wl are installed.
System: Lenovo Z50-70.

Comment 1 Josh Boyer 2016-12-01 12:25:18 UTC

Fedora does not provide or support third party proprietary drivers.  You will need to report this issue to whomever you got the wl driver from.