Bug 374991

Summary:	bcm43xx kernel module for Broadcom wireless card fails to load
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Michael J. Kofler <michaelkofler>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Michael J. Kofler 2007-11-10 19:11:14 UTC

Description of problem:
modprobe fails for find bcm43xx module for Broadcom wireless card. I have 
copied the correct driver from Windows (BCMWL5.SYS), ran
 bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware BCMWL5.SYS
which extracted the files seemingly without problem.
I then run modprobe bcm43xx and get the error:
[root@tatooine Desktop]# modprobe bcm43xx
FATAL: Module bcm43xx not found.

Running locate seems to indicate that the module is there (see partial output 
below), but it won't load.:

/lib/firmware/bcm43xx_initval01.fw
/lib/firmware/bcm43xx_initval02.fw
/lib/firmware/bcm43xx_initval03.fw
/lib/firmware/bcm43xx_initval04.fw
/lib/firmware/bcm43xx_initval05.fw
/lib/firmware/bcm43xx_initval06.fw
/lib/firmware/bcm43xx_initval07.fw
/lib/firmware/bcm43xx_initval08.fw
/lib/firmware/bcm43xx_initval09.fw
/lib/firmware/bcm43xx_initval10.fw
/lib/firmware/bcm43xx_microcode11.fw
/lib/firmware/bcm43xx_microcode2.fw
/lib/firmware/bcm43xx_microcode4.fw
/lib/firmware/bcm43xx_microcode5.fw
/lib/firmware/bcm43xx_pcm4.fw
/lib/firmware/bcm43xx_pcm5.fw
/lib/modules/2.6.21-1.3194.fc7/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx
/lib/modules/2.6.21-1.3194.fc7/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx.ko
/lib/modules/2.6.21-1.3194.fc7/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211/bcm43xx
/lib/modules/2.6.21-1.3194.fc7/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/mac80211/bcm43xx/bcm43xx-mac80211.ko
/usr/bin/bcm43xx-fwcutter


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.6.23.1-21.fc7
kernel-headers-2.6.23.1-21.fc7
kernel-devel-2.6.23.1-21.fc7
bcm43xx-fwcutter-006-1.fc7
Fresh install of FC7 with all updates as of 11-09-07

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.extract bcm files to /lib/firmware with fwcutter as directed in how-to
2.type 'modprobe bcm43xx' to attempt to load module
3.
  
Actual results:
Module fails to load

Expected results:
Module loads

Additional info:

Comment 1 Michael J. Kofler 2007-11-10 23:31:22 UTC

The problem was that the bcm43xx modules weren't in the /lib/modules/... for  
kernel-2.6.23.1-21.fc7. I rebooted into kernel 2.6.21... and everything worked 
as expected.

I had updated from kernel 2.6.21 to 2.6.23 - the available modules didn't 
update with it, I guess.

Comment 2 Chuck Ebbert 2007-11-27 23:02:13 UTC

The module name has changed to either b43 or b43legacy depending on which exact
model you may have.