Broadcom Wireless adapters and kernel updates [SOLVED]

Temlakos temlakos at gmail.com
Tue Jul 1 18:23:55 UTC 2014


On 07/01/2014 02:17 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Temlakos <temlakos at gmail.com> said:
>> The problem is: it doesn't seem to work for me. When I reboot, the
>> machine does not mention wireless at all. Not, that is, until I
>> execute "sudo modprobe b43" from a regular user prompt. Then it
>> finds the connection at once.
> If you have install the "wl" module from a package, for example from
> RPMfusion, it includes configuration to block b43 from loading (because
> they conflict otherwise).  If you want to use b43, uninstall the wl
> package(s) (e.g. "yum remove broadcom-wl").
>
And that solves the problem. Now when I boot or reboot, I get a wireless 
connection on login, every time.

Temlakos


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