Fedora 15 and Broadcom BCM43224 not working

[Phissure]

I recently installed Fedora 15 on my HP Elitebook 8460p and it has a BCM43224 wireless card. I installed the RPMFusion repositories and installed kmod-wl and broadcom-wl packages this morning. Rebooted and the wireless worked just fine.

Fast forward to this afternoon, I had rebooted my laptop and apparently my kernel had updated when I wasn't looking and my wireless suddenly stopped working. Before the rebooted I was on 2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64 and after reboot I am on 2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64. I checked and there was an update to kmod-wl for 2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64 which I installed.

I ran modprobe wl and checked lsmod and it shows that wl is loaded but it does not show up in either ifconfig -a or in NetworkManager. I rebooted and got the same results.

I'm at a loss as to what happened and would really appreciate any help or suggestions that might help me figure out where to go from here.

I should probably also mention that I did install the akmod-wl package in hopes that would fix my issue, but it did not, so I'm back on the kmod-wl package.

TLDR: Using BCM43224, updated kernel to 2.6.40, update kmod-wl to 2.6.40 and now wifi won't work.

[kdknigga]

I have an Asus EEE PC 1215t with a Broadcom BCM4313 and I'm having the same issue.

I was able to change the kernel back to 2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64 by editing the "default" line in /boot/grub/grub.conf and rebooting. 2.6.38.8-35 kernel works.

[JMO]

Same issue here. HP425 with BCM4313, Fedora 15 2.6.40-4, and no wireless device working.

[warrenv]

my bluetooth mouse that was previously paired with the laptop stopped working after 2.6.40-4 kernel update.
bluetooth can be toggled on/off but visibility cannot be changed in gnome3.

[bbfuller]

If you check with:

uname -r

at the command line, anyone who has updated and rebooted will see:

2.6.40-4.fc15

listed as the running kernel.

If you check the rpmfusion repositories you will see that, as of a few hours ago, many of the kernel specific modules hadn't been updated yet.

That's not an unusual situation for a day or so after a new kernel release.

You can either edit your grub.conf file, or its symbolic link menu.lst, as the fix by kdknigga.

Or, as Fedora retains a previous kernel for just this situation, you can access it at boot time by repeatedly tapping the down arrow key to display the boot menu and select it there.

In a dual boot machine with Windows, that menu is set to display for a few seconds by default. If you wish it to display every time you boot, you can edit either of those same files as mentioned before and change the "timeout" line to a value of however many seconds you wish. I believe in dual boot machines it's five seconds.

[vilmar_nicolau]

Same here. I will try the tip of the kdknigga.
Thanks;
Packages for the new kernel is already in rpmfusion. My notebook is already up and running.

[lio_013]

same proble here
card :

Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)

installed packages :

broadcom-wl-5.60.48.36-1.fc13.noarch
akmod-wl-5.60.48.36-2.fc15.1.x86_64
kmod-wl-5.60.48.36-2.fc15.6.x86_64
kernel 2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64 

wl is loaded :

[03:21][root ahmed]$ lsmod | grep wl
wl                   1960208  0 
lib80211                4999  1 wl 

but the device doesnot show yet in ifconfig or networkmanager

[nunesvictor]

same proble here
card :


installed packages :

broadcom-wl-5.60.48.36-1.fc13.noarch
akmod-wl-5.60.48.36-2.fc15.1.x86_64
kmod-wl-5.60.48.36-2.fc15.6.x86_64
kernel 2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64 

wl is loaded :

[03:21][root ahmed]$ lsmod | grep wl
wl                   1960208  0 
lib80211                4999  1 wl 

but the device doesnot show yet in ifconfig or networkmanager

exactly the same issue over here!

[BovrilBoy]

since the latest update my broadcom wireless refused to work. I googled it and found nothing specific but when I restarted using the old kernel I noticed that the kernel module for bcma wasn't being used-

lspci -v | awk '/Ether|Net/,/^$/'

05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp. Device 7179
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at f0100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78 <?>
Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-df-ff-ff-f9-e8-39
Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>
Kernel driver in use: wl
Kernel modules: wl

09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device c08c
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46
Memory at f0200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [5c] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [c0] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [130] Device Serial Number c2-0e-da-ff-ff-54-24-00
Kernel driver in use: sky2
Kernel modules: sky2

and after the update it had appeared-

lspci -v | awk '/Ether|Net/,/^$/'

05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp. Device 7179
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at f0100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78 <?>
Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-df-ff-ff-f9-e8-39
Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?>
Kernel driver in use: bcma-pci-bridge
Kernel modules: wl, bcma

09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller
Subsystem: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device c08c
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46
Memory at f0200000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [5c] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [c0] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [130] Device Serial Number c2-0e-da-ff-ff-54-24-00
Kernel driver in use: sky2
Kernel modules: sky2


So more googling showed that I could blacklist it in /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-wl-blacklist.conf
it looks like this now

# modules blacklisted for broadcom-wl
blacklist bcm43xx
blacklist bcma
blacklist ssb
blacklist b43
blacklist ndiswrapper

After a reboot my wireless is working fine.But my bluetooth is still not working properly, guess this is a work around not a fix.
I'm just offering this up as a suggestion and if anyone more knowledgable than me would like to suggest a better way of doing this then please feel free.
Hope this helps

[djf_jeff]

I got my Broadcom card to work again with the wl module.

The only thing I got to do is to blacklist the bcma module in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf :

blacklist bcma


And after that :

rmmod wl
rmmod bcma
modprobe wl


For reference : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727796

[nunesvictor]

it works... thank you guys!

[lio_013]

I got my Broadcom card to work again with the wl module.

The only thing I got to do is to blacklist the bcma module in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf :

blacklist bcma


And after that :

rmmod wl
rmmod bcma
modprobe wl


For reference : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727796

That works for me to ..... Thanks fedora community

[dguglielmo]

So i changed my default in my /boot/grub/grub/conf:

default=2.6.38.8-35.fc15.i686

and nothing happened on reboot still have same problem no wireless....

i have broadcom 4312 and im using the linux sta driver worked fine before

am i doing something wrong?

[GetA1]

Fantastic, thank you very much (sorry my english)

[jackzou]

good

is works