Bug 799657

Summary:	incorrect (b43) module loaded for BCM43225 (brcmsmac)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Samuel Jones <bugzilla>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	John W. Linville <linville>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda
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Description Samuel Jones 2012-03-04 01:14:57 UTC

Description of problem:

On a fresh installation of Fedora 17 Alpha, b43 is loaded as the module for WiFi in NetworkManager which causes the card to fail.

brcmsmac is compiled as a module in the kernel, yet b43 is incorrectly loaded, blacklisting b43 causes brcmsmac to be loaded instead and the card works fine.

This PCI-id of this card is: 

01:00.0 0280: 14e4:4357 (rev 01)
01:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 

[samuel@dharma ~]$ uname -r
3.3.0-0.rc5.git3.1.fc17.x86_64

[samuel@dharma ~]$ NetworkManager --version
0.9.3-0.2.git20120215.fc17

Comment 1 Josh Boyer 2012-03-05 15:42:05 UTC

John, this one seems to pop up every so often iirc.  Are we missing a patch in f17 that was somehow in f15/f16?

Comment 2 John W. Linville 2012-03-05 16:37:25 UTC

Not a patch, but we should disable CONFIG_B43_BCMA_EXTRA to avoid overlaps between b43 and brcmsmac.  I made the change in f17 and rawhide, and it should be done that way if/when f16 gets rebased.

Comment 3 Josh Boyer 2012-08-10 17:39:21 UTC

This should be fixed per comment #2.