Fedora 36 update vs broadcom-wl

[D. Hugh Redelmeier]

I have an 11-year-old netbook.  The WiFi hardware needs the broadcom-wl 
driver from RPM Fusion.

The Fedora upgrade from 35 to 36 worked fine, including keeping/updating 
broadcom-wl.

But WiFi didn't work.  The desktop didn't even see the device.  I needed 
to issue the command

sudo depmod

I've had to do this in previous upgrades too.

This is pretty easy to do but not at all obvious (I leave notes to myself 
so that I don't have to rediscover the solution).

My guess is that this is a simple oversight in packaging.  If so, it is an 
RPMFusion problem, not a Fedora problem.

[Tom Horsley]

On Tue, 31 May 2022 11:51:49 -0400 (EDT)
D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> My guess is that this is a simple oversight in packaging.  If so, it is an 
> RPMFusion problem, not a Fedora problem.

Or maybe upgrade isn't equipped to deal with anything other than fedora
repos? I never expect any 3rd party stuff to survive. I usually
uninstall things like the nvidia drivers, do the upgrade, then reinstall
from scratch.

[T.C. Hollingsworth]

On Tue, May 31, 2022 at 9:04 AM D. Hugh Redelmeier  wrote:
> But WiFi didn't work.  The desktop didn't even see the device.  I needed
> to issue the command
>     sudo depmod
>
> I've had to do this in previous upgrades too.
>
> This is pretty easy to do but not at all obvious (I leave notes to myself
> so that I don't have to rediscover the solution).
>
> My guess is that this is a simple oversight in packaging.  If so, it is an
> RPMFusion problem, not a Fedora problem.

Yes, it's a known issue, I see you found the bug later after you
posted this.  :-)

https://rpmfusion.org/CommonBugs
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2011120