Acer Aspire One, Wifi, and Fedora 15

[Eric Mesa]

I originally posted this to the user mailing list, but as I thought about
it, I realized that this might be something that needs to be brought to the
attention of the developers before Fedora 15 ships.

My original message:
I just got an Acer Aspire One and threw Fedora 15 Alpha on it.  This
is a good thing as, according to
linuxwireless.org/en/users/drivers/brcm80211 says that my wifi chip is
in the 2.6.38 kernel.  That page tells me to d/l some firmware files
to a specific directory.  I went there and those files are already
there.  But I don't have any wireless configured.

The system only sees em1 and lo if I do an iwconfig and em1 is the ethernet.
lspci -vnn | grep 14e4
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313
802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
       Subsystem: Broadcom Corporation Device [14e4:0510]

so the system can see the hardware.  Why is it not loading?  Is there
another step I'm missing?

Thanks!


Which prompted the following reply on the list:
Hi,

There is possibly an small problem - what relates to the kmod - akmod
naming difference. I could help you, but tell me the results of
'ifconfig', 'rfkill' (you have install that, and need an list param),
and 'lsmod', 'rpm -qa | grep wl' . Pack that into an txt, and send it
over me. If I have right, then we have to report an dependency
problem.

Thanks,

Zoltan


Which is what made me think the devs needed to see it.  Here's the output
that he asked me to generate:




em1       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 1C:75:08:BF:3C:5A
          inet addr:192.168.1.17  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::1e75:8ff:febf:3c5a/64 Scope:Link


          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2095 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1569 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:4
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000


          RX bytes:2051696 (1.9 MiB)  TX bytes:211388 (206.4 KiB)
          Interrupt:45

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host


          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:26 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:26 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0


          RX bytes:1380 (1.3 KiB)  TX bytes:1380 (1.3 KiB)

rfkill now
rfkill list wlan
rfkill list wifi
lsmod now
Module                  Size  Used by
tcp_lp                  2183  0
sunrpc                195388  1


8021q                  18707  0
garp                    6087  1 8021q
stp                     1951  1 garp
llc                     4716  2 garp,stp
cpufreq_ondemand        9466  2
acpi_cpufreq            7001  1


freq_table              3963  2 cpufreq_ondemand,acpi_cpufreq
mperf                   1505  1 acpi_cpufreq
ip6t_REJECT             4048  2
nf_conntrack_ipv6       7978  1
nf_defrag_ipv6          9531  1 nf_conntrack_ipv6


ip6table_filter         1695  1
ip6_tables             16834  1 ip6table_filter
snd_hda_codec_realtek   325024  1
uvcvideo               54609  0
snd_hda_intel          23694  2
snd_hda_codec          80822  2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel


snd_hwdep               6368  1 snd_hda_codec
snd_seq                52438  0
videodev               63426  1 uvcvideo
v4l2_compat_ioctl32     6697  1 videodev
microcode              18117  0
snd_seq_device          6001  1 snd_seq


snd_pcm                78769  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
i2c_i801                9213  0
iTCO_wdt               11480  0
iTCO_vendor_support     2634  1 iTCO_wdt
snd_timer              19593  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm


joydev                  9635  0
atl1c                  30919  0
snd                    62654  12
snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore               6299  1 snd


snd_page_alloc          7431  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
sparse_keymap           3302  0
rfkill                 16552  0
wmi                     9105  0
uinput                  7419  0
ipv6                  282007  33 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6,nf_defrag_ipv6


i915                  346239  2
drm_kms_helper         27243  1 i915
drm                   187648  3 i915,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit            4950  1 i915
i2c_core               25468  6
videodev,i2c_i801,i915,drm_kms_helper,drm,i2c_algo_bit


video                  12432  1 i915
rpm command now
python-iwlib-0.1-6.fc15.x86_64
iwl100-firmware-39.31.5.1-2.fc15.noarch
iwl3945-firmware-15.32.2.9-5.fc15.noarch
iwl6000-firmware-9.221.4.1-2.fc15.noarch


iwl6050-firmware-41.28.5.1-3.fc15.noarch
iwl5000-firmware-8.83.5.1-2.fc15.noarch
iwl6000g2a-firmware-17.168.5.1-2.fc15.noarch
iwl1000-firmware-39.31.5.1-1.fc15.noarch
iwl4965-firmware-228.61.2.24-3.fc15.noarch


iwl5150-firmware-8.24.2.2-2.fc15.noarch

Thanks,


So let me know what info you need to get this resolved.

Thanks a lot!

--
Eric Mesa
http://www.ericsbinaryworld.com