Description of problem: The new development kernel for fc7 changed its wireless support driver for bcm43xx based cards from the (SoftMAC based) "bcm43xx" to the (mac80211 based) "bcm43xx_mac80211". However, the old SoftMAC based bcm43xx driver still gets loaded by the kernel, in addition to the new one. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [root@fedora-ibook ~]# uname -a Linux fedora-ibook 2.6.20-1.3038.fc7 #1 Sat Mar 31 19:26:27 EDT 2007 ppc ppc ppc GNU/Linux How reproducible: easy Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run "lsmod | egrep 'bcm43xx|80211'" Actual results: bcm43xx 443496 0 ieee80211softmac 37472 1 bcm43xx ieee80211 51217 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac ieee80211_crypt 7104 1 ieee80211 rc80211_simple 6304 1 bcm43xx_mac80211 424044 0 ssb 42148 1 bcm43xx_mac80211 mac80211 198404 2 rc80211_simple,bcm43xx_mac80211 cfg80211 14800 1 mac80211 Expected results: bcm43xx_mac80211 424044 0 rc80211_simple 6304 1 ssb 42148 1 bcm43xx_mac80211 cfg80211 14800 1 mac80211 mac80211 198404 2 rc80211_simple,bcm43xx_mac80211 Additional info: The BCM4306 based Apple Airport Extreme Mini-PCI card fails to establish a WPA2 connection to a IEEE 802.11g access point, although wpa_supplicant 0.5.7 successfully authenticated. [root@fedora-ibook ~]# ifup eth1 Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device eth1 ; Device or resource busy. Error for wireless request "Set Bit Rate" (8B20) : SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported. Determining IP information for eth1... failed.
The two drivers each use different firmware. So depending on where you got your firmware, only one version of the driver should work at all. Also, there is some hardware that works better (or only works) with one version of the driver or the other. Including both versions for now seems like the better choice. Are you observing an actual problem from both drivers being loaded? Or is the WPA2 connection failure the real problem? Please try the test kernels here: http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/fc7/ Do they work any better for WPA2?
Closing on the basis of the "subject" problem having been addressed.