no wifi with 2.40.x and 3.0.0.x kernels

Josh Boyer jwboyer at redhat.com
Thu Aug 4 01:08:42 UTC 2011


On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 08:46:06PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> I dont have any wifi on kernels 2.40 and 3.0.0 on F15 host
> 
> Hardware HP Pavilion DM-1
> 
> Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
> 
> $ diff lspci.2.38 lspci.2.40
> 78a79
>  >     Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus
> 86c87
> <     Interrupt: pin ? routed to IRQ 16
> ---
>  >     Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
> 236,237c237,238
> <     Kernel driver in use: wl
> <     Kernel modules: wl
> ---
>  >     Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge
>  >     Kernel modules: wl, bcma
> 
> Do I need to blacklist the wl module or the bcma one?

CONFIG_BCMA was disabled in the kernels today.  The next F15, F16, and
rawhide builds should fix this issue and make b43 work again.

josh


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