Bug 233929 - bcm4306 wireless no longer works
Summary: bcm4306 wireless no longer works
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-03-25 22:43 UTC by Gerald Henriksen
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2007-04-05 13:37:17 UTC
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Description Gerald Henriksen 2007-03-25 22:43:50 UTC 
Description of problem:

bcm4306 based wireless card no longer works with latest development kernel.

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

kernel-2.6.20-1.3017 

Additional info:

wireless card worked with kernel-2.6.20-1.2949 (previous kernel since I ugpraded
today).

Searching the test mailing list revealed that I needed to upgrade to a newer
firmware because of a change in the bcm43xx driver in the kernel, however the
newer firmware does not work.  Search of the net found the following
https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2007-February/004005.html which
indicates that the wireless card in my laptop (Dell Inspiron 5150) is too old
for the newly required firmware (lspci gives my bcm4306 as rev 03).
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