F13 kernel 2.6.433.3-85 breaks b43 wireless

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Mon May 10 03:01:13 UTC 2010


On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 03:51 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 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:

Looking at your package list more closely, wl a) is from RPM Fusion (so
not supported on this list) and b) will, if installed, disable the b43
driver completely, so your b43 stuff doesn't matter. I suspect you
simply have enough of wl installed to have b43 disabled, but you don't
actually have a built version of the wl module for the -85 kernel (I
don't think Fusion has caught up with -85 yet). Try installing the
'akmod-wl' package.
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