Bug 732424
Summary: | Kmod-wl not updating together with kernel update. | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Miguel Angelo Mello <webmaster> |
Component: | yum | Assignee: | Seth Vidal <skvidal> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | unspecified | ||
Version: | 15 | CC: | ffesti, james.antill, maxamillion, pmatilai, tim.lauridsen, zpavlas |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
Last Closed: | 2011-08-22 16:08:06 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Miguel Angelo Mello
2011-08-22 12:40:04 UTC
kmod-wl is not a fedora package and is available from a 3 part repo (rpmfusion), so there will be some kind of delay before rpmfusion can build new version, when a kernel is released in fedora. There is nothing we can do about this. The main issue is that broadcom dont have a working driver for all chipsets in the upstream kernel, so you need a binary driver (wl) to get your broadcom wifi working. You can install the akmod-wl package from rpmfusion, it will automatic build and install a kmod-wl package for a new kernel, so your not have to care about missing kmod-wl from rpmfusion. Tim, Thank you for the plain text explanation. I have understood everything. However, I guess this explanation could be present somewhere in the Fedora Documentation regarding wireless setup. I have searched the documentation for that, but nothing found. Regards. |