F13 kernel 2.6.433.3-85 breaks b43 wireless

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Mon May 10 02:51:50 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 10:15 +1000, Philip Rhoades wrote:
> People,
> 
> On a Gateway LT30, going from:
> 
> kernel-2.6.33.3-79.fc13.i686
> b43-fwcutter-012-2.fc12.i686
> b43-openfwwf-5.2-3.fc13.noarch
> broadcom-wl-5.60.48.36-1.fc13.noarch
> 
> to:
> 
> kernel-2.6.33.3-85.fc13.i686
> 
> breaks the wireless connectivity.

Uh, are you sure? The changelog shows nothing that looks related to b43:

* Thu May 06 2010 Adam Jackson <ajax at redhat.com> 2.6.33.3-85 -
drm-intel-next: Enable the display even harder (#587171) 

* Wed May 05 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.33.3-84 -
CONFIG_HWMON=y => CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON. Kconfig is worse than rabies. 

* Wed May 05 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.33.3-83 -
disable-i8042-check-on-apple-mac.patch: fix build on ppc. 

* Tue May 04 2010 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com> 2.6.33.3-82 -
iwlwifi: recalculate average tpt if not current (#588021) 

* Tue May 04 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.33.3-81 -
disable-i8042-check-on-apple-mac.patch: avoid long delay or hang booting
on Intel Apple Macs. 

* Tue May 04 2010 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com> 2.6.33.3-80 -
ibmvscsi-fix-DMA-API-misuse.patch (#579454) 
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