Bug 815059

Summary: Kernel update breaks broadcom wifi BCM4313
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) <sanjay.ankur>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 17CC: arend, brcm80211-dev-list, gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda
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Description Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) 2012-04-22 09:15:36 UTC 
Description of problem:
After the latest kernel update, my broadcom wifi does not work.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-3.3.1-5.fc17.x86_64
kernel-3.3.2-1.fc17.x86_64
kernel-3.3.2-8.fc17.x86_64

Linux ankur.pc 3.3.2-8.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sat Apr 21 12:44:25 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


How reproducible:
Anlways


Steps to Reproduce:
1.Update kernel to 3.3.2-8
2.reboot
3.
  
Actual results:
wifi is "not available" any more

Expected results:
wifi should work (worked with previous kernel)

Additional info:

[root@ankur ~]# lsmod | egrep bc
bcma                   30183  1 brcmsmac

12:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
Comment 1 Arend van Spriel 2012-04-23 08:40:19 UTC 
What kernel version were you using before the update?
Comment 2 Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) 2012-04-23 12:49:14 UTC 
As per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=812506#c10 restarting NetworkManager got wireless working again:

systemctl restart NetworkManager.service

Not a kernel bug. Closing :)

Ankur