Bug 870262

Summary: [Broadcom wireless] Does not connect to wifi network after resume from hibernate
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) <sanjay.ankur>
Component: kernelAssignee: John Greene <jogreene>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 17CC: gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, linville, madhu.chinakonda, sgruszka
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Description Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) 2012-10-26 00:43:57 UTC 
Description of problem:
On resuming from hibernate (using pm-hibernate), the system fails to connect to a wireless network. It keeps asking for authentication, but does not connect.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Linux ankur.pc 3.6.2-4.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 17 02:43:21 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

gnome-shell-3.4.1-6.fc17.x86_64
NetworkManager-0.9.4.0-9.git20120521.fc17.x86_64


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. pm-hibernate to hibernate system
2. resume from hibernate
3.
  
Actual results:
Will continuously ask for authentication but not connect

Expected results:
Should connect to wireless network without issues

Additional info:

dmesg tail attached.


Workaround:

systemctl stop NetworkManager.service; rmmod brcmsmac; rmmod bcma; modprobe brcmsmac; systemctl start NetworkManager.service # basically stopping the service, reloading brcmsmac
Comment 1 Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) 2012-10-26 00:44:32 UTC 
Created attachment 633595 [details]
dmesg tail during connection failure
Comment 2 Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) 2012-10-26 00:45:33 UTC 
Created attachment 633596 [details]
dmesg tail after reloading kernel module and successful connection to wireless network
Comment 3 John Greene 2013-04-29 13:09:47 UTC 
Ankur,
 
Have you tried a 3.8 or later kernel?  This stuff seems much improved with later kernels, i.e.

Can you try that?
Comment 4 Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) 2013-05-01 03:23:30 UTC 
John,

Hibernate isn't working for me at all at the moment :/

I'm closing this bug. I'll refile if it crops up again.

Thanks for looking into it.

Warm regards,
Ankur