Bug 439153
| Summary: | b43 fails to load on kernel 2.6.24.4-58.fc8 | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Dario Castellarin <req1348> | ||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | John W. Linville <linville> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | 8 | CC: | kernel-maint | ||||
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| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | 2.6.24.4-59.fc8 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||
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| Last Closed: | 2008-03-28 15:01:43 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Created attachment 299304 [details]
Log of the failure from dmesg
I can confirm this. b43 is busted in 2.6.24.4-58.fc8. Even LED won't light up. I'm not really sure why ieee80211 is being loaded at all. Anyway, I'll get a fix for this into the fedora kernels as of -59.fc8 or later. In the meantime, you can try: modprobe -r ieee80211 modprobe cfg80211 modprobe b43 Does that help? (In reply to comment #3) > I'm not really sure why ieee80211 is being loaded at all. Anyway, I'll get a > fix for this into the fedora kernels as of -59.fc8 or later. > > In the meantime, you can try: > > modprobe -r ieee80211 > modprobe cfg80211 > modprobe b43 > > Does that help? Yes it does, I'm writing from kernel 2.6.24.4-58 right now. Anyway, I get a strange warning when modprobing b43: [root@dario-laptop ~]# modprobe b43 WARNING: Error inserting ieee80211 (/lib/modules/2.6.24.4-58.fc8/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211.ko): Invalid module format Apart from this, wireless works fine as usual. 2.6.24.4-59.fc8 fixes it. On the side note, I understand the rapid nature of wireless development, the noise from b43 is too much. [user@laptop ~]$ dmesg | grep b43 | wc -l 109 We don't have that many bugreports to justify this amount of debugging. Can we have a special boot option to turn it off/on (with off by default). I confirm -59 solves it |
Description of problem: The b43 module fails to load with kernel 2.6.24.4-58.fc8 complaining about a lot of unknown symbols. Tested on x86_64. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.24.4-58.fc8 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot the kernel 2. see it fail 3. Actual results: b43 fails to load Expected results: b43 loads fine Additional info: 05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev 01) Subsystem: Dell Unknown device 0007 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 18 Memory at c0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable- Capabilities: [d0] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00 Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge Kernel modules: ssb