I started off with the stock kernel and the wireless would not work. I decided to go with a custom kernel. The custom kernel has a very similar configuration to the one that I used in Fedora 11. I had no problems with Fedora 11. I have tried installing the akmod-wl driver as well as the Broadcom STA from source with the exact same results. My system detects the card as a wireless adapter but does not display any networks under network manager. It just shows as wireless networks disconnected. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Please do no answer with things like, "Why are you using a custom kernel". I need to figure out the problem that I am having and if it is with the custom kernel, I would like to narrow down the cause, not just use the stock kernel.
Linux LAPTOP 2.6.31.5-127.CUST3.fc12.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Nov 21
23:24:03 CST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
eth1 IEEE 802.11 Nickname:""
Access Point: Not-Associated
Link Quality:5 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 invalid crypt:0 invalid misc:0
3: eth1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DORMANT qlen 1000
link/ether 00:26:5e:27:39:03 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
Module Size Used by
nls_utf8 2128 1
fuse 62672 2
sunrpc 194168 1
ipv6 306352 32
cpufreq_ondemand 8000 2
acpi_cpufreq 10752 0
freq_table 4864 2 cpufreq_ondemand,acpi_cpufreq
dm_multipath 16616 0
uinput 9424 0
snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi 15120 1
snd_hda_codec_idt 66944 1
snd_hda_intel 30472 2
snd_hda_codec 73264 3 snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_ intel
snd_hwdep 9400 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_seq 58656 0
snd_seq_device 7780 1 snd_seq
lib80211_crypt_tkip 9792 0
snd_pcm 82456 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
wl 1278880 0
snd_timer 22656 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 68424 13 snd_hda_codec_intelhdmi,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_ intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_seq_devi ce,snd_pcm,snd_timer
firewire_ohci 23492 0
soundcore 7680 1 snd
sdhci_pci 9136 0
sdhci 20948 1 sdhci_pci
firewire_core 48088 1 firewire_ohci
dell_laptop 5960 0
snd_page_alloc 9792 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
rfkill 20584 1 dell_laptop
lib80211 6564 2 lib80211_crypt_tkip,wl
iTCO_wdt 13072 0
crc_itu_t 2080 1 firewire_core
tg3 105268 0
intel_agp 30400 1
mmc_core 59424 1 sdhci
psmouse 44540 0
libphy 22640 1 tg3
i2c_i801 11644 0
dcdbas 10784 1 dell_laptop
iTCO_vendor_support 3588 1 iTCO_wdt
serio_raw 6692 0
wmi 7424 0
ext4 311416 3
mbcache 8276 1 ext4
jbd2 90368 1 ext4
cryptd 7912 0
aes_x86_64 8752 4
aes_generic 27728 1 aes_x86_64
xts 3680 2
gf128mul 8096 1 xts
dm_crypt 13624 2
pcmcia 27032 0
yenta_socket 28556 1
rsrc_nonstatic 10576 1 yenta_socket
i915 221056 0
drm_kms_helper 25536 1 i915
drm 172848 2 i915,drm_kms_helper
i2c_algo_bit 6020 1 i915
i2c_core 28912 4 i2c_i801,i915,drm,i2c_algo_bit
video 23620 1 i915
output 3504 1 video
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN Mini-Card
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at f69fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: wl
Kernel modules: wl
Linear Mode
