Bug 242585
| Summary: | BCM43xx Cards read as ethernet adaptors not wireless | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Luis Flores <lefloresg80> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | John W. Linville <linville> |
| Status: | CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 7 | CC: | cebbert, chris.brown, davej |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| URL: | http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=10 | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2007-12-13 22:18:04 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Luis Flores
2007-06-04 22:13:54 UTC
More likely a driver problem. *** Bug 242588 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Which driver are you using? It needs to be either bcm43xx-mac80211 or bcm43xx. Please see the message I posted on fedora-list here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-June/msg01009.html Does installing v4 firmware (the first procedure) make things work better? If not, try the second procedure. Does that make things work? If you try both procedures above and still have a non-working driver, then please attach the output of running dmesg and 'lspci -n'...thanks! This bug is a duplicate of bugs 242338, 243097, 243487, 243585, 244529, and 245084. It' obviously a problem for many users. The fix posted on fedora-list by John W. Linville here: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-June/msg01009.html doesn't work (at least for me, and, I suspect, for many others). Please pay attention to this bug. I think it's a NetworkManager problem. Hello folks, I'm reviewing this bug as part of the kernel bug triage project, an attempt to isolate current bugs in the fedora kernel. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelBugTriage I am CC'ing myself to this bug and will try and assist you in resolving it if I can. There hasn't been much activity on this bug for a while. Could you tell me if you are still having problems with the latest kernel? If the problem no longer exists then please close this bug or I'll do so in a few days if there is no additional information lodged. Cheers Chris As of kernel 2.6.22.4-65.fc7, my interface works with the b43 driver, but at a top speed of 1 Mb/s. I believe I've read somewhere that the speed limitation goes away with the 2.6.22.5 and higher kernels in http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8, but I've been waiting for one of them to make it into updates. (In reply to comment #6) > As of kernel 2.6.22.4-65.fc7, my interface works with the b43 driver, but at a > top speed of 1 Mb/s. > > I believe I've read somewhere that the speed limitation goes away with the > 2.6.22.5 and higher kernels in > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8, but I've been > waiting for one of them to make it into updates. The bcm43xx driver is still very new and a product of reverse-engineering as a result of broadcom being nigh-on-useless with regards to opening their specifications. So its more a case of patience I think and hopefully things will improve, especially with 2.6.23 around the corner. You may wish to try development kernels with: yum update kernel --enablerepo=development and revert to the current stable kernel if you have any problems. If you're happy with the status quo, feel free to go ahead and close the bug as essentially the issue appears to be driver-dependent and its just a case of tracking upstream as close as possible. Cheers Chris Closed due to lack of response...please re-open if/when the requested information becomes available... |