Broadcom 4312 freezes Fedora 12

[Geburah]

Hi there.

I've been having some trouble with my recently bought laptop.
Type: Dell Vostro 1015.
You can see the full specification by following the link in my signature.

What's important is this:

lshw -c network

  *-network               
       description: Wireless interface
       product: BCM4312 802.11b/g
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
       logical name: eth1
       version: 01
       serial: 90:4c:e5:99:ba:40
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=5.10.91.9 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
       resources: irq:17 memory:f69fc000-f69fffff

It just freezes randomly when the wifi is activated. I've tried ubuntu, and it's all ok, but I want Fedora on my laptop, so here I am asking for help.

After the install, wifi is not present.
I had to install the driver kmod-wl, and after a few freezes I followed the guide here:
http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Dr...e_installation

but It's all the same.

The system freezes randomly and all I can do is to push the power button and force-turn it off.

I'm not sure, but I think it's the wireless. It's my second Fedora install on this machine, and the second was all right until I set the wireless drivers (or I had luck to have no stops).

If it helps, I can even provide a log from /var/log/messages but I don't think it will help much.


Any suggestions?

[pankajp]

actually the broadcom situation is very confusing, there are many different drivers available and different methods to install.
1. openfwwf supports some broadcom cards and comes with default fedora install
2. kmod-wl + broadcom-wl from rpmfusion
3. http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Dr...e_installation
All three are different and you need to make sure you remove installations of others to test.
In my case (1) was giving hard crashes so i removed it and installed using (3). It seems to work ok, though i haven't used wifi extensively since.

[shahdharmit]

Well, with F12 I got my Broadcom 4312 work out-of-the-box without having to install kmod-wl like in the previous versions. Note that if you have PAE kernel then you'll have to install kmod-wl-PAE.

[Geburah]

kmod-wl crashed without leaving any trace what it's problem was.
I'm running on broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4 installed with b43-fwcutter now and It's still up. I hope it won't crash while programmin

[Geburah]

It did.
Seems like it's not absolutely random, 'cause the next crash's possibility is higher after a crash.

I started to fix every bug listed in /var/log/messages. Maybe this crash will go away when I'm finished. Maybe not

Next suspicious element:

Mar 11 08:01:42 geburah NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) scheduled...
Mar 11 08:01:42 geburah NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 4 of 5 (IP4 Configure Get) complete.
Mar 11 08:01:42 geburah NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) started...
Mar 11 08:01:42 geburah avahi-daemon[1329]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth1.IPv4 with address 192.168.2.103.
Mar 11 08:01:42 geburah avahi-daemon[1329]: New relevant interface eth1.IPv4 for mDNS.
Mar 11 08:01:42 geburah avahi-daemon[1329]: Registering new address record for 192.168.2.103 on eth1.IPv4.
Mar 11 08:01:43 geburah NetworkManager: <info> (eth1): device state change: 7 -> 8 (reason 0)
Mar 11 08:01:43 geburah NetworkManager: <info> Policy set 'Auto default' (eth1) as default for routing and DNS.
Mar 11 08:01:43 geburah NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) successful, device activated.
Mar 11 08:01:43 geburah NetworkManager: <info> Activation (eth1) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) complete.


This appears before every crash, but sometimes goes through without any problem.
Mostly it's just before "kernel: ...."-like lines (booting).

Possible origin of error:
NetworkManager: supplicant_interface_acquire: assertion `mgr_state == NM_SUPPLICANT_MANAGER_STATE_IDLE' failed

I don't really know what this does but the error could be some statuschange in network.
Any suggestions?

[osamafarook]

i already have the same problem as you
I have bought Dell Vostro 1015
intsalled Fedora 12
After putting wireless or Mobile broadband usb, it hangs at random.
Can anyone help? or should we ask Dell support?

[Geburah]

At last!

I don't there would be any help from the Dell guys 'cause they shipped it with Ubuntu so they don't have to do anything with us forcing Fedora on it.

I made other threads as I advanced but came back to the point that this is some driver issue.

Let me know if you manage to make it work.

( I even tried the .deb driver from the drivers cd converted to rpm. )