Bug 652801
| Summary: | MacBook Pro wireless should work out of the box after LiveCD install | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Marius Andreiana <marius.andreiana> | ||||
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED CANTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | 14 | CC: | dougsland, fedora, gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, lemenkov, linville, madhu.chinakonda | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2011-08-31 16:37:51 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
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Theoretically this can be fixed by enabling brcm80211 driver (available in staging) I don't think that it is possible to ship these broadcom drivers pre-built against a Fedora kernel, as they are not GPLv2. Peter's suggestion seems more hopeful. http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php -c Fedora doesn't enable staging, and we cannot include the wl driver. When the brcm80211 driver moves into mainline, we'll be sure to enable it in Fedora. |
Created attachment 460143 [details] lspci Description of problem: MacBook Pro wireless doesn't work out of the box Steps to Reproduce: 1. Click on network icon in gnome. Actual results: See only Wired and VPN options available, no wireless. Expected results: Wireless Additional info: Wireless works after yum -y install akmod-wl akmods kmod-wl Please include these in Fedora Live CD.