Problem with bcm43xx-80211 Revisited

Martin Marques martin at bugs.unl.edu.ar
Tue Aug 28 19:44:02 UTC 2007


Andrew Robinson escribió:
> Whenst last we left our hero, I had let yum upgrade my kernel on FC6 to 
> 2.6.22.1-32.fc6, which required bcm43xx drivers version 4. However, 
> bcm43xx-fwcutter had not been upgraded and would not handle the new 
> drives. Moving forward, last night I updated to the latest 
> bcm43xx-fwcutter and extracted the version 4 drivers. My laptop's 
> wireless now works but not at boot time. I have to run 'modprobe 
> bcm43xx-mac80211' and 'ifup eth1' to get an actual network connection. I 
> tried to illustrate the situation with the output below. It seems like 
> there is a timing or order issue.
> 
> Anyone know what I'm doing wrong or need to do differently to get the 
> new version of bcm43xx working on my laptop?
> 
> 

# grep wlan0 /etc/modprobe.conf
alias wlan0 bcm43xx-mac80211




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