https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=870704
Alice K alice_knoll_drouin@yahoo.com changed:
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--- Comment #3 from Alice K alice_knoll_drouin@yahoo.com ---
1. WiFi still not working after updating to kernel-3.6.3-1.fc17.x86_6
2. sudo yum remove kmod-wl akmod-wl broadcom-wl
3. sudo yum install kmod
4. reboot
My WiFi for Fedora 17 is now working well.
The Fedora team should now focus on the kmod package and push it into Fedora 18 by default. When all is well, there is no need to do a Wired LAN connection to install from the external Fusion repository to get WiFi to work.
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I also did an update to kernel-3.6.2-1.fc16.x86_64 for Fedora 16. Like Fedora 17, the WiFi is also broken. Unlike Fedora 17, Fedora 16 does not have the kmod package.
I did sudo yum remove kmod-wl-3.6.2-1.fc16.x86_64
The last two kernels: kernel-3.4.11-1.fc16.x86_64 and kernel-3.4.9-2.fc16.x86_64 failed on WiFi also.
This truly highlight the danger on relying on Broadcom on kmod-wl. No I cannot use Fedora 16 on WiFi.
Is there a way to get my Fedora 16 to work? Can the Fedora team push the kmod package into the Fedora 16 repository for the next update?