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Description of problem: Kernel (2.6.40-4.fc15.i686.PAE) caused my wireless to stop working. Reverting to the previous kernel (2.6.38.8-35.fc15.i686.PAE) got it functioning again. F15 fully patched on an ASUS Eee PC netbook with built in WiFi. On the faulty kernel the user space tool doesn't see the wireless adapter. lspci clearly shows it. NetworkManager shows that it recognises the kill switch and the adapter, but the user space tools don't see it. WiFi is via Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g If anyone needs me to do any testing, or submit more info, let me know. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: boot box - no wireless Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
I have the same issue. Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 Dell Latitude E6510 kernel-2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64
Already seems to be a discussion (or two) regarding this. Here is one: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=267852
related? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727796
I include the section from the bugzilla discussion (727796) above that resolved my issue: ################################## I got my Broadcom card to work again with the wl module. The only thing I got to do is to blacklist the bcma module in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf : blacklist bcma And after that : rmmod wl rmmod bcma modprobe wl ################################## Your mileage may vary
please push the fix in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727796 to fedora 15 testing
I had the same issue on my 64-bit installation: $ echo 'Kernel Version: ' `uname -r` && echo 'lspci Info:' && lspci -v | awk '/Ether|Net/,/^$/' Kernel Version: 2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64 lspci Info: 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02) Subsystem: Dell Device 01f2 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 17 Memory at fe5fe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: b44 Kernel modules: b44 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01) Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1395 WLAN Mini-Card Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17 Memory at fe8fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: wl Kernel modules: wl, ssb I did not have the bcma module installed, and blacklisting it did not help. What ended up solving my issue was to install "kmod-wl-2.6.40-4" and "kmod-wl-3.6.40.3-0". I still had to boot several times this morning to get the wl module to load.
same problem, the only way to get wl to work was use older kernel
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